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thank you!

and yeah i agree, i use the share menu (at least firefox allows opening links from the sharesheet) but it would be nice to have it as an option

nah, i agree with you. win explorer with qttabbar, tortoisegit, and some tweaks from winaerotweaker

dolphin is pretty good though and it has some features that explorer doesn’t, like a terminal pane

ah don’t worry i’m not the dev, i just like the app

nice avatar, by the way

but …surely you could just do the same thing with the old design? artist’s rendition:

in fact, now i look at it, it makes them look even more similar once i collapse the sidebar

meh, subjectively i find that creates a “worst of both worlds” situation. but this comment was more about the futility of the development time that went into this specific feature

maybe; but if the location of menu buttons hints at their use then the hamburger should collapse the side drawer like the one on e.g. youtube, but i doubt it does

I had to look up Fitts’s law, and I’m not sure I get it. Could you explain what you mean?

basically; the speed that it takes to click a button is dependant on the size of the button and the distance from the cursor. however, buttons at the edge of the screen have effectively infinite size, as they can’t be overshot. the most used actions should be placed there, as they are the easiest to click by muscle memory (particularly the corners, as they have infinite size in both dimensions)

on windows, kde, cinnamon, etc.; by default the bottom left is start, the bottom right is show desktop (this one i can’t explain), and the top right is close maximised window. the top of the screen is also used for other window-related actions like minimise, restore, change csd tabs, etc.

gnome flouts this by having most of the top of the screen doing nothing (most of it is completely empty) apart from rarely used actions like calendar and power. and the bottom right and left doing nothing^[1]

did i explain well?

ETA: I kinda feel like mine was about KDE not being a fit for me personally, and yours was a slam on Gnome rather than a statement of personal preference.

nah it was very much a personal thing: some people like having a minimal and clutter-free feature set; i like having as many features as possible, because then i find features i didn’t even know i liked.^[2]

as for the top bar: this one confuses me - it just seems objectively bad. but obviously it’s not as some people clearly like it. i haven’t had anyone actually explain to me why, though

as someone who’s not scared of computers, i have no idea what they do. i assume the right one is icons/list/compact^[1] not a waffle menu, but the hamburger and kebab? i have no clue

every time i try to use gnome, i end up spending all my time going “dammit, where are all the bleeding features”

(also the lack of fitts’ law adherence due to that pointless bar at the top)

yep, that’s me

i’m not even sure it’s worth having an option. i don’t think i’d even have noticed a difference, apart from the menu button being in a slightly different place to every other gnome app. it’s fine; but it wasn’t worth the development time

who even decides what’s “modern” anymore?

i think this is a bug with v0.18.4 - i know it wasn’t happening and then suddenly it was, and i’m pretty sure it was right after the update

this is how kbin does it, i think

i must admit, i can often guess what the context is of a message, and if i reply i usually open the whole thread anyways

what would be really useful however, is something like this for dms. currently the best way is to show read, then go to the messages tab so you’re not swamped. a threaded view of that would be great

little nightmares 1 & 2 are fantastic, i thoroughly recommend them to anyone; and this looks like it takes some influence from 9

greatly looking forward to this

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yeah, but it’s not the original dev [team?]

if i fork firefox into a gemini browser and call it “firefox for gemini”, i don’t think mozilla would be over the moon

personally, i wouldn’t

but maybe i’m biased

i still find it weird that’s it’s called infinity. i know it’s not illegal, but why not just call it "eternity for lemmy"or something?