Pop_OS 18.04: the state of the art in GNU/Linux on desktop
It&#x27;s odd that the author is an interaction designer, but goes on such a rant about keeping a feature that proved to work badly when tested on actual users. I&#x27;d say actual testing should trump whatever intuition you have about what works well.<p>Sure, he theorises that the reason is doesn&#x27;t work for users is because it hasn&#x27;t been implemented properly everywhere (which the GNOME developers also state), but &quot;we should expend effort on getting third parties to adhere to the HIG&quot; is a classic cop-out: &quot;things would be better if we would just do them better&quot;.<p>Sure, if you can show that the reason third parties do not adhere to the HIG is lack of effort from the team, and you have reason to believe that there is a way to increase the amount of effort spent on that other than saying &quot;just do it&quot;, then by all means, go for it. But if that&#x27;s not the case, the only valid conclusion is that the desired state might not be possible, and removing such a feature is the only proper course of action.