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by projektfu 33 days ago
On MacOS it was a great example of the use of Fitts law, a vertically infinite target for your mouse pointer for commonly used tasks when you didn't memorize the keyboard command. But on a giant monitor it's too far away from your work. Macs, for the longest time, had 512x342, 640x480 or 512x384. It was already getting far away at 1152x882.
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extraduder_ire 33 days ago
Even better, Command-? opens a search menu (usually under the "Help" button) that points you at the first matching menu option (even if there's no shortcut for it). The Unity DE tried to replicate that with their HUD feature, but it wasn't universal. It's an incredible feature and I wish everyone copied it.
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ankurdhama 33 days ago
Many apps these days have tabs at top like chrome or firefox and having a top panel (with or without menu bar) means you loose the useful of the fitts law for accessing the tabs of such apps.
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projektfu 33 days ago
That's ok because in a lot of cases they also have a little border at the top that's not clickable. Nobody is thinking of Fitts law anymore.
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ankurdhama 33 days ago
I can click that top border part and chrome still select the tab (tested on Windows and KDE)
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projektfu 33 days ago
It works on chrome but not all programs with the same look.
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