Meld

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2010–2023), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Meld, 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 12 complaints

Options were hidden inside a hamburger menu after GNOME-style simplification2023-06-23
Diff setup dialog shows only file names, not full paths, so same-named files are hard to tell apart2023-01-29
Laggy performance on Mac makes it hard to use sometimes2022-05-16
Feels clunky and slow on small and mid-sized systems2022-03-21
Takes about 3 seconds to start and lags so badly within git difftool it is unusable2022-03-21
Slightly tricky to integrate into Sourcetree, requiring correct command line args2022-03-20
UI feels sluggish and fuzzy on Windows, unlike the snappier alternative2022-03-20
Newer GTK3 version had useless scrollbars and was slow to interact with2022-03-20
Comparing pasted arbitrary text requires clicking a couple of buttons first2022-03-20
Theme is unusable for red-blue colorblind users on KDE dark theme2022-03-20
Meld's overall user experience is somewhat clunky2020-03-06
Delete and right-direction buttons sit next to each other, so a misclick deletes files2010-08-30