>> Developers are users too.
For a GUI toolkit, developers are the only users in one sense.
>> > I'm personally not sure that "user must have an ability to redefine every keyboard shortcut"
I'm not either, but I agree it sucks to just remove existing functionality. OTOH reading the thread it seems on MacOS you can define that outside the application, so integrating with that would be a requirement - did they do that before?
We get people wanting to redefine shortcuts sometimes and I'm just like "wow, can't people just accept the defaults? I'm not even sure how to go about implementing that, never mind on 3 platforms..."
My current UI complaint is corruption of the title bar. Gnome has allowed widgets up there now. Even if I accept the desire to use the space, some widgets can be used to drag the window while others can not. The primary purpose of clicking up there is to move a window and I can't tell if/where I can do that any more. BTW moving windows is important now with Wayland because Apps can't remember where they were and put themselves there on opening, and the Gnome guys haven't realized that's their job now. BTW I agree with the Wayland thinking on this, it's just that the DE hasn't caught up yet.
Also on Windows, MS has made some title bars white/grey and some blue. Same with toolbars. So now when I have multiple windows overlapping it's impossible to tell what is attached to what and what will move the window I want to move. It's like GUI designers think "oh I'd like this" but don't even consider the collateral damage the change will cause.
For a GUI toolkit, developers are the only users in one sense.
>> > I'm personally not sure that "user must have an ability to redefine every keyboard shortcut"
I'm not either, but I agree it sucks to just remove existing functionality. OTOH reading the thread it seems on MacOS you can define that outside the application, so integrating with that would be a requirement - did they do that before?
We get people wanting to redefine shortcuts sometimes and I'm just like "wow, can't people just accept the defaults? I'm not even sure how to go about implementing that, never mind on 3 platforms..."
My current UI complaint is corruption of the title bar. Gnome has allowed widgets up there now. Even if I accept the desire to use the space, some widgets can be used to drag the window while others can not. The primary purpose of clicking up there is to move a window and I can't tell if/where I can do that any more. BTW moving windows is important now with Wayland because Apps can't remember where they were and put themselves there on opening, and the Gnome guys haven't realized that's their job now. BTW I agree with the Wayland thinking on this, it's just that the DE hasn't caught up yet.
Also on Windows, MS has made some title bars white/grey and some blue. Same with toolbars. So now when I have multiple windows overlapping it's impossible to tell what is attached to what and what will move the window I want to move. It's like GUI designers think "oh I'd like this" but don't even consider the collateral damage the change will cause.