[deergomoo]

> It seems the aim is now to make all computing feel fun and friendly

The weird part is most current attempts of this are actually really bad at it past initial surface appearances.

Minimalist and “content-first’ UIs look great in screenshots and I guess they prevent new users from getting overwhelmed, but they also hide all the features in a way I find quite hostile. We have an absolute wealth of pixels in our displays today, but tons of software makes you decipher abstract line icons to work out what it can actually do.

The Mac thankfully still has the escape hatch of the menu bar, which almost universally allows you to browse and search all performable actions (and see their keyboard shortcuts inline!), but mobile operating systems don’t even have a touch-centric equivalent of tooltips.

[weikju]

I dread the day the menubar disappears...

[warning26]

Luckily, considering they brought the menubar to iOS (you can open it on most apps if you have an external keyboard connected and hold CMD), I'd say that Apple is at least somewhat committed to it!

[WWLink]

Can you imagine if they changed it so that you had to get those actions by doing a 5 finger swipe while hovering over an app (on the trackpad) or clicking 3 times while moving diagonally across?

Ugh I hate gestures. Such a stupid stupid non-intuitive stupid practice.