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No title bars or menus... now you can't tell what application a Window belongs to. I hate when applications stuff other controls (like browser tabs) into the t
by userbinator 1y ago
No title bars or menus... now you can't tell what application a Window belongs to.
I hate when applications stuff other controls (like browser tabs) into the title bar --- leaving you with no place to grab and move the window.
The irony is that we had title bars when monitors were only 640x480, yet now that they have multiplied many times in resolution, and become much bigger, UIs are somehow using the excuse of "saving space" to remove title bars and introducing even more useless whitespace.
- DidYaWipe 1y agoAmen. And then there's the idiotic peek-a-boo UI that hides controls until you accidentally roll over them with the cursor... not saving any space at all.
- devnullbrain 1y agoWe don't do desktop computing like we did then. Most of what was separate applications then are now done in-browser: it's like running a virtual machine inside your OS. I don't need to know that what I'm using is Edge/Chrome/Firefox any more than I need to know that what I'm using is Windows/etc.
- iamtedd 1y agoThis argument would make more sense if it wasn't in a thread talking about all the other apps besides the browser that does this.
- devnullbrain 1y agoMy point is that there rarely are other 'apps' in use.
- DidYaWipe 1y agoThat assertion is absurd.
- devnullbrain 1y agoIt is not novel to point out that more things are webapps or Electron.
- DidYaWipe 1y ago"More things" than what? And novelty has nothing to do with it. This is about validity.
- fuzzy2 1y ago> now that they have multiplied many times in resolution Did they though? Quite a few laptops barely have 720 pixels in (scaled) height. That's less than your CRT with 1024x768, back in the days.