I know it’s not everybody’s cup of tea but I wish that global menubar options on Linux were more robust.
There are extensions to add one to GNOME and XFCE, and KDE has it as a built in option, which is great. Problem is, this feature relies on programs advertising their menus via dbus, and a lot of them don’t bother at all, meaning that it’s sitting up there blank half the time. The only reason that this is even possible is because the desktop paradigm moved menus into the space of the app UI, which I think is a mistake. Menus are such an important accessibility feature that even if they’re glued to windows, it should be a standardized system owned widget so overzealous IKEA-minded designers can’t screw with them.
This is very frustrating to me because with hamburger menus and window attached menus I feel like I’m chasing a frequently used widget around the screen.
There are extensions to add one to GNOME and XFCE, and KDE has it as a built in option, which is great. Problem is, this feature relies on programs advertising their menus via dbus, and a lot of them don’t bother at all, meaning that it’s sitting up there blank half the time. The only reason that this is even possible is because the desktop paradigm moved menus into the space of the app UI, which I think is a mistake. Menus are such an important accessibility feature that even if they’re glued to windows, it should be a standardized system owned widget so overzealous IKEA-minded designers can’t screw with them.
This is very frustrating to me because with hamburger menus and window attached menus I feel like I’m chasing a frequently used widget around the screen.