Why the changes to the 20.04 desktop?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Samstag, den 17.10.2020, 13:43 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert:
> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 17.10.2020, 12:51 +0200 schrieb Volker Wysk:
> > Am Samstag, den 17.10.2020, 12:46 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert:
> > > hi,
> > > Am Samstag, den 17.10.2020, 21:13 +1100 schrieb Owen Thomas:
> > > > Hmmm... interesting... I can no longer open my previously closed
> > > > sessions before I closed Firefox because I cannot find where the
> > > > menu
> > > > option to do this is.
> > > > 
> > > > What has happened to the Firefox menu bar?
> > > 
> > > it went into the "hamburger menu" (the three horizontal stripes at
> > > the
> > > top right of the firefox window) like in many other apps with the
> > > newer
> > > GNOME desktop ...
> > 
> > No, the three-lines-menu isn't the same as the menu bar, which
> > appears when pressing Alt.
> > 
> 
> it is differently organized and has some functions as icons instead of
> text entries, but it ofers about 80-90% of the original functionality
> without knowing the secret handshake (pressing alt) to bring up the old
> menu 
> ... and if you ask an UX designer it is sadly actually the thing that
> will replace menubars (for plain GNOME apps it already fully does)...
> 
> wether this is progress or insanity is in the eye of teh beholder in
> the end i guess :)

I won't like it.  :-(

But it's a matter of habit, I guess.

Volker
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