Comment by thombat
6 years ago
And you will have to click on that hamburger menu, since even on a device with a keyboard there will be no shortcut for using it. It's not merely nostalgia that has me pining for those bygone days of being able to drive almost every feature of every application from the keyboard, and having a clear culture of right-click-gives-context menu ... now on a Mac I'm resigned to apathetically pulling down menus with a mouse and playing guess-which-keyboard-modifiers-combine-for-this-menu-option.
At least on macOS, if you don't like a particular combination, you can reassign it — for any or all application(s).
Also, what stops you right-clicking (or in Apple parlance, secondary clicking) on macOS? Context menus are plentiful, either by: - Holding Ctrl and clicking with the primary mouse button - On the Mighty Mouse and Magic Mouse, enabling secondary click in System Preferences - On the Magic Trackpad, enabling secondary click as either a click in one of the lower corners or two-finger tap in System Preferences
It's not about right-clicking. It's about not having to use the mouse in the first place. Learn to use your keyboard more instead of your mouse. Tabbing around, for example, is a hell of a lot faster than moving your mouse across all the fields to type in. But many hamburger menus can't be tabbed into nor are they brought down with the alt key (like on Windows) nor are they available by the context key (since... if they were, they could be tabbed into).
At least on macOS, that's because hamburger menus should be an accelerator; the functionality that they expose should also be available via the global menu bar.
It's badly-designed apps, likely cross-platform or designed by people who don't know the macOS HIG, that bring mobile-style hamburger menus to macOS, not the hamburger itself.