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> Windows did put the application-specific menus into the per-window title bar Except that's not what Windows does. Just about every app has a different place
by oefrha 4y ago
> Windows did put the application-specific menus into the per-window title bar
Except that's not what Windows does. Just about every app has a different place where you can find the menu (if there is one). Looking at a couple Microsoft apps on Windows 11:
- File Explorer: menu in an ellipsis in the toolbar; toolbar is left aligned so the ellipsis menu is in the middle of the window for a reasonably wide window.
- Edge: menu in an ellipsis to the right of the address bar.
- Windows Terminal: menu in a tiny down-facing caret next to the new tab button.
- regedit: Old-style menu under the title bar.
- Office: you know the ribbons.
- kibwen 4y agoThat's referring to the long-ago time period when MS first decided to forego the global application menu bar in favor of the Windows taskbar. Indeed, the fact that many programs no longer feature traditional menu bars, but that they do still feature close/maximize/minimize buttons in their titlebars, only further reinforces how much more important those buttons are. Even when I used Mac, even when using apps that had useful entries in the global application menu bar, I cannot remember a single instance of voluntarily using the global application menu bar for anything (other than "please close this app", because the year is 2022 and Mac still refuses to acknowledge that closing the last window means I want the app to close).