alt Hacker NewsI really miss the tear-off-into-their-own-window menus. They were so handy.
I have to wonder if the fact that Wayland either never had or has only very recently gotten support for applications that need to place their windows at application-commanded locations on the screen meant that those lovely tear-off menus had to die.
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simonask • yesterday at 11:55 PM
FWIW, they have been unfashionable for much longer than Wayland has been usable, on all platforms.
And that’s understandable. It’s not actually good usability.
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The gtk3 docs give the following reason for the deprecation:
Menus are not meant to be torn around.
Yeah, they are meant to be implemented with web technologies and look like shit.
BTW, this tear-off style is probably quite old. Long ago, I used an early version of ANSYS (for Windows) which apparently was still close to its Unix original, and it had its menus pop up like real windows, with close buttons! They were nicely cascaded, but one could rearrange them.