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0 pointsJohnFen8mo ago0 comments

Options are good. I hate having tabs or other controls vertically on the side. I like them at the top. There's no reason we can't both be happy.

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hammyhavoc8mo ago

I want both via a single button-press, or defaults per-monitor.

What I want on an ultrawide isn't what I want on a portrait 16:9 side monitor.

conductr8mo ago

I generally have the same hatred but oddly on Mac OS I prefer the Dock on the right side. I've been dual Win/Mac user and have had this preference on Mac for a long time. Not sure why as it goes against almost everything else I do LOL

phatskat8mo ago

I had my Mac dock on the side for a while, but I’m back to bottom dock as I work with two external monitors and just leave the dock on the laptop display. I also had the taskbar on the left of my Win2k setup for quite some time but these days I hardly use windows outside of gaming so it just stays where it is by default

naysunjr8mo ago

Yeah this. What should irk about search bar is cannot be moved. The static nature of UI these days stinks when back in the day we aimed for more composable user facing apps. Mod games by dumping a model file in a dir; boomed recomposed the experience.

Now it’s all micro transactions so an MBA doesn’t have to work anymore.

Now those are power user and dev tools and users get what they decided was the just right info dense or sparse design.

phatskat8mo ago

I still fall a slight bit in love when an application has a “Customize…” option attached to the menu/ribbon/whatever. I had Word set up just the way I wanted it some 20 years ago

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hammyhavoc8mo ago

I want both via a single button-press, or defaults per-monitor.

What I want on an ultrawide isn't what I want on a portrait 16:9 side monitor.

conductr8mo ago

phatskat8mo ago

naysunjr8mo ago

Now it’s all micro transactions so an MBA doesn’t have to work anymore.

Now those are power user and dev tools and users get what they decided was the just right info dense or sparse design.

phatskat8mo ago

I still fall a slight bit in love when an application has a “Customize…” option attached to the menu/ribbon/whatever. I had Word set up just the way I wanted it some 20 years ago

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