[thrdbndndn]

It's (almost) every major software.

I mainly use Chrome, and in their newest M121 release they made not one, but three major UI changes and I hate every single one of them.

For the curious, they are (together with my rant):

1. the new "simplified" bookmark save flow which is more complicated than the old one;

2. loss of the ability to disable system notification (i.e. to use Chrome's built-in one, which I prefer);

3. loss of the ability to disable "copy to highlight" context menu option via a command line argument, which I never use and it just messes up my muscle memory for right click -> copy.*

* Seriously, why is it so tough for software in the CURRENT YEAR to just offer fully customizable context menus? How hard is that? Funnily enough, this used to be a staple feature in nearly all the popular freeware back in the 2000s and 2010s. It feels like the whole UI/UX scene has taken a nosedive lately.

[DonHopkins]

Simon Schneegan's "Kandu" cross platform pie menus, as well as his older "Fly-Pie" and "Gnome-Pie" projects, let you create and edit your own pie menus with a WYSIWYG drag-and-drop direct manipulation interface.

Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu (github.com/kando-menu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39206966

https://github.com/kando-menu/kando

A first glimpse at Kando's Menu Editor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLJ1-z9i3cI

Development Update for Kando's Menu Editor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIF6k9OxQ80

Item labels in Fly-Pie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyl5nMPI1f0

Fly-Pie 10: A new Clipboard Menu, proper touch support & much more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGXtckqhEIk

Fly-Pie 7: GNOME Shell 40+ and a new WYSIWYG Menu Editor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRT3O9-H5Xs

Gnome-Pie

https://vimeo.com/30618179

Gnome-Pie 0.4 (12 years ago)

https://vimeo.com/35385121

https://schneegans.github.io/gnome-pie

[KTibow]

If I had to guess why they might not let you customize it

- the people who make the software don't know or don't care about the other way you want it

- it adds a bit more complexity / sometimes code debt to let that thing be customized

- the design might be a specific way that they don't want to change

[encom]

>fully customizable context menus? How hard is that?

It's not hard at all, Vivaldi does it. I consider Vivaldi the least worst browser.