Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
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Re: Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
#2I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars.
I avoid using VS Code for this reason.
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#3I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars. I avoid using VS Code for this reason.
The other day I used the Command Palette to symlink `code` as a command to open `vscode` without having to type `ln -s /path/to/vscode /usr/bin/vscode` which was quite nice because trying the symlink version gave me confusing errors.
I am unsure the UX is there to help make that discoverable in a menu; you'd be so deep that it'd be behind multiple sub-nests at a minimum. Seems much better to have a flat search for this.
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#4I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars. I avoid using VS Code for this reason.
> I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars.
Everyone has their own preferences; personally, every time I open Word, I am confused and disoriented and have no idea where to look for what I want. I think it's best for no-one to try to impose their UI preference on everyone, and for all of us just to use the software with which we find it easiest to interact.
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#5I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars. I avoid using VS Code for this reason.
It's easier to type commands when you have to do it alot. It uses muscle memory rather than deplete your attention span. Might be difficult at first, but it's easier once you get used to it.
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#6Such a well written article/history.
I applaud the trend. Love it. More smart-type CLIish interfaces, please.
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#7I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars. I avoid using VS Code for this reason.
I like to have both. AutoCAD is an example of a (very) complex application which has both.
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#8> "People need to feel that they can try things without damaging the system," recommended Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines.
well, for what it's worth, many modern apps aren't following that guideline. for a long time i have questioned the disappearance of tooltips in user interfaces. especially when everybody seems to come up with their own iconography nowadays.
the answer i got from UX people is that "you can't hover or have tooltips on mobile". they are trying to achieve uniformity between mobile and desktop.
they will probably confine that useful command palette to particular apps too. because you can't have a command palette on mobile either.
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#9I'm okay with command palettes, but hate how they steal ctrl/cmd + k. I use that in Firefox to focus the search bar.
If you implement such a shortcut, please make it configurable!
Re: Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
#10I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars. I avoid using VS Code for this reason.
One of the best features of OSX is that programs have menu bars. I didn't even know they had removed the menus from VS Code on other platforms. I still can't find anything in word, except on mac, where there is an actual menu.
Anyway, the removing of menus was not caused by the addition of command palettes. I think the history is that microsoft believed icons was easier than text, so they made the ribbons, and then for a while other removed menus in favor of ribbons, but then they realized ribbons sucks, so they removed those, and then there was nothing, maybe a hamburger menu if one of the UX's had done webdesign before.