Incessant hamburgerization is something that I also find annoying. Any time I have to set up Firefox, the very first thing I do is enable the menu bar.
My desktop isn't a tablet - stop trying to make it one!
My desktop isn't a tablet - stop trying to make it one!
I'm sure vertical space is the most often-repeated argument, but I'm skeptical that it's indeed the reason behind this trend.
I tried a 36", I can't stand it as a display. Fine for a TV, but it's a little much for a monitor. Although I can't stand more than 2 displays, so YMMV.
Ironically, I do enable them on my tablet, because I don't always have a keyboard attached to it. Tablets generally have enough space for full menus / toolbars, and lacking a keyboard they're arguably the form factor most in need of them.
I know about the "Alt" key, but I find the need to press that to pop up the menu to be incredibly annoying.
I use the menu really frequently -- for pretty much anything that isn't a toolbar button.
I tend not to use keyboard shortcuts generally, but particularly if I'm just reading a website -- in that situation, my hands are on the mouse, not the keyboard, and moving to the keyboard to type a shortcut is more inconvenient than just being able to use two clicks on a menu.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Also I miss typing ".." in the URL bar to go to my home page (I'll admit this was an iexplore quirk, albeit a really convenient one...)
Edit: apparently on PCs the per-window menu is activated with Alt, TIL
Why can't we just have sites/apps/SPAs/whatever that look and work well on whatever device they supposedly support?
Indeed. There seems to be a weird idea that it's possible to make a UI that works well on all form factors. I don't see how that's possible, and I've never seen it happen in practice.
What actually happens is that you have a UI that works well on one form factor and badly on the others, or you have a UI that works poorly on them all.
This is why we have media queries in CSS!
Placing the cursor in text by imitating the new cursor catch and place game of iOS will be also fun. Probably so much fun that quite a number of people will stay longer in the office to play with it.
That said, the menu bar has already taken serious damage by the introduction of OS X, when the first menu item became the variable width application name. Before this, the File and Edit menus and their essential menu items were exactly on the same place in every application, rendering the most essential commands a matter of muscle memory, quite like a guesture.
Thank you to the poster below for the "alt" shortcut and for reminding me I can change the settings!
I don't have a problem with the concept of the hamburger except what they put in it is less useful than the menu bar.
I don't drive much, these days; but even as a passenger, they do my head in. No More Hamburgers! Boo!
Game over. Do you want to play another game?
(...you know - material ui is the new shit. I wonder what are they smoking, i would _love_ to try it too)