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I very much disagree, the discoverability with a search interface is terrible. With a menu bar even the most computer-illiterate troglodyte (e.g. me) can just

by tmtvl 4y ago

I very much disagree, the discoverability with a search interface is terrible. With a menu bar even the most computer-illiterate troglodyte (e.g. me) can just go oh, it says "Help" there, I'll click it without having to worry about my one neuron overheating. EDIT: I think the best option is taking the golden middle road and having a menu bar which can be searched through, kind of like Unity has.

pxc 4y ago
> I think the best option is taking the golden middle road and having a menu bar which can be searched through, kind of like Unity has. Yes! I've been a KDE person since like KDE 3.4, but I gave Unity a chance in its heyday and I absolutely loved it for that feature. Discoverability with a search interface can be improved by adding a visual representation of search categories or common search terms, and an old-school hierarchical menu can do just fine for that. (I think a different kind of menu might be better for discovery, though. You could do a more search/filtering-oriented descent of the same hierarchy, and enrich the menu entries being filtered with documentation and previews.) Discoverability of search interfaces can also be improved with by tagging things with synonyms and descriptions, so that users can search by task instead of the app's canonical names for functions.