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Comment by seanhunter

6 hours ago

what an amazing example. We have on one window title bar:

- a "+"

- a down-arrow which presumably opens some sort of menu

- a hamburger menu (why is this different to the down arrow?)

- a "..." menu (err, isn't this the same as the hamburger menu and/or the down arrow?)

- A "hammer" icon next to the word "fetching". Because... Hammer Time! Also, yeah we use a hammer to fetch things. I think that's something we can all get behind.

- another two down-arrows. One probably opens out options for the "hammer" bar. The other...?

- an up and down arrow. Maybe this actually changes the options for the "hammer/fetching" bar.

- A search magnifying glass (no search field curiously).

- A cross.

And the biggest problem is that most GTK3+ applications have that kind of messy client side decoration. It's completely unusable.

Also, something about "Podcasts" in what is presenting as a Rust IDE. Looking more closely at the rest, I assume this is because it's the name of the project being edited, but it's still confusing. Fundamentally the title bar is being split in two, with a separate part for each main column of the window, as if it were really two windows docked together.

I currently have ~12 windows open (Win11 explorer, office, dev / terminal apps, sublime, Firefox, signal) : almost every one of them has a different top bar.