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Global menu bars
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Global menu bars, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
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 5 complaints
- Menubar far from window forces hunting for a small target each time2023-01-26
- Menubar often sits blank because apps don't advertise their menus over dbus2022-12-17
- Users get confused because the menu seems disconnected from the application it controls2018-07-27
- Menus sit far away from small windows, hard to reach2018-06-19
- Menus act on other windows, so users must refocus the main window to use them, and closing the menu's window removes application controls2010-03-04