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Global menu bar
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2010–2022), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Menu bar is hard to reach with a mouse on multiple monitors2022-12-17
- Actions appear disconnected from their window; focus is unclear, so wrong window gets triggered2022-12-17
- Menu bar sits far away on large and multiple monitors and is hard to reach by touch2021-06-21
- Global menus work poorly with focus-follows-mouse, so usability suffers2021-06-17
- Must travel to top-left screen corner to use a window's menu when window is elsewhere2018-07-27
- Menu actions disconnected from the window being acted on, hard to use2018-06-19
- Must move mouse far to a distant monitor to reach menus for windows elsewhere2010-04-28