[worble]

Yeah, I definitely think the biggest productivity gains I've had in my entire life were the command bar in VSCode and the integrated start menu search in Windows 7. Keep the UI simple, but searchable, even better if I never have to take my hands off the keyboard to find and execute a command.

On a somewhat related note, does anyone else find scrolling on the page really laggy? Not unusable but definitely noticable. I'm on desktop Firefox.

[kaba0]

OSX has it best with their searchable menu bars. (It was also done by Ubuntu’s Unity, RIP).

[kitsunesoba]

The menubar being standardized across most apps, which enables that search function, customization of the key shortcuts for any menu item in any app, and enables the creation of third party apps that present menu items in a different way[0] is one of the most underrated features of macOS IMO.

It’s the Wild West when it comes to menubars on Windows and Linux, with there being more ways to implement a menubar than can be counted (if the app in question even has one and isn’t using one of those terrible hamburger menus instead). There’s no hope of fixing this under Windows but for Linux, I could see a new XDG spec that standardizes how menubars are exposed which would enable macOS/Unity style menu searching without apps being patched to work with a single DE.

[0]: https://appmakes.io/paletro