I just accidentally clicked the “clear all” on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks
Anyway, what are your unpopular UI opinions?
Brimg back double-clicking on the top left corner of a program to close it. Actually, bring back the top bar and the file menu while you’re at it. And for software that opens tabs, allow the user to position the tabs bar on the bottom or side of the screen.
What OS was this on? Not sure it’s ever been a feature of Windows as far as I know. What’s the benefit of doing this vs just single clicking on the X button?
That was actually Windows. I think I first encountered it in Win 3.1, but I started really using it in 95. It’s not actually Windows that controlled it, but software. Application windows used yo have a top bar, and on the very left they had a small version of their shortcut icon. Clicking on it would roll out a short menu for minimizing, closing, etc, and double-clicking would exit out of the program. I think Chrome was the first popular software to remove it.
Using this method for closing programs is just a matter of preference and muscle memory. I guess it made sense when the last thing you did was File -> Save, so your cursor was already near the top left. Nowadays it’s not as obvious, but some of us are too rigid to easily change.
Omg i want a top bar soo much. I hate no bar on browsers filled with tabs, and here i am trying to position my mousr in a tiny bit of non tab apce so i can grab the window and move it.
One of my only non-minor complaints about KDE Plasma is that I can’t have the options that appear on the Global Menu panel widget (They’re like macOS top bar app options) appear as part of the window decorations on each window instead. There is a button on the window decorations to access these options as a dropdown, but that’s slower to use.