The end of the nice GTK button
I really miss a consistent user experience. A core idea that I as a user can rely on to predict how a new app will work. I was in awe when I discovered as a kid that user interface were a research area. Things like Fitt's Law and so on. It was not just opinion.Today I get the feeling it's mostly just opinion. Either the designer's opinion or the wish to copy the look of something.Whenever I see a hamburger menu I silently think "Here someone has given up".And there are a lot of behaviors that are not functioning well.Is something a button? Should I click it or double-click it? How about long-press on it? How can I know when there's no visual clues?Things like "Hide cursor while typing" in Windows. It has not worked properly for decades and today only work in some super old apps like Notepad.Another thing is type-ahead. I remember in classic MacOS, people pressed shortcuts and started to type the filename or whatever. It was all perfectly recorded and replayed. In modern Windows, press Win-key and start to type, oops, it missed the first keypresses, presented the completely wrong results and made a mess of your workflow.I feel confused and disrespected as a user every day and I've been using WIMP graphical user interfaces since 1986. Sure, computers do more today, but there's less consideration of almost everything.