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by Daishiman 2046 days ago
We've also eliminated a ton of crappy UI conventions and settled on some common paradigms in all platforms. I remember the four-layer-deep right-click context menus and I kinda shudder now.

There were also some really good ideas that I wish had caught on (I was a huge fan of focus-follows-mouse and I still use the X select-into-clipboard), but the general uniformity of UI patters nowadays is very much calming.

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I really like the context menus in GIMP. Much less mouse travel than trying to hit the top of the window or screen.