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It’s a legacy feature. It will go away.

• olex 15y ago
  And where will you put your user actions then, that belonged in the menu before? Invent a million inconsistent ways to stuff more things in the Action Bar or display some menus elsewhere in the UI? Sorry, but I liked the consistent hardware-button-activated menu much better for this purpose.
  • ugh 15y ago
    In the appropriate and logical places. The menu button was a massive mess, idiotic from the beginning.
    • ajoshi 15y ago
      Can you explain what you didn't like about it? As a user, I found it to be dead simple to use, and as a developer, I had no problems working with it either. Removing the menu button sounds like adding friction to me. Opening the options menu for every app is the same button press. You can do it with your eyes closed. Also, doesn't the action bar just take up precious screen real estate? For something that users will only occasionally interact with, that doesn't seem like a good use of a limited resource.