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August 2022

alpopa

Thank you @waddlesplash for this report. I am always eager to read it as soon as new month starts :slight_smile: I definitely will test radeon_hd automatic fallback to VESA / FB. This one is important for me (of course, I also await for working radeon_hd some day). All other news (WiFi drivers, XFS, FUSE, ARM, GTK) are also nice to see here.

August 2022

BeBox63

What is a "hamburger menu" operation mode? It doesn’t sound very palatable to begin with…

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August 2022 ▶ BeBox63

PulkoMandy Developer

It’s the name given to menus that instead of having a complete menubar, put all the items in a menu that is open by pressing a single button. Usually the button icon is three horizontal lines, supposed to look like a menu with 3 items, but people have nichnamed it “hamburger” as it also looks vaguely like a stylized bread-meat-bread stack.

This type of menu appeared on phones where it made sense to save screenspace and have rather square-ish shaped buttons, but now ofr some reason it spreads to Desktop systems, where it is a bit nonsensical because there is a lot more space so we don’t need to hide menus this way, and our pointing devices are more precise, so items don’t need to be relatively large squares.

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August 2022

X512

That menu button is quite old actually. It first appeared on Xerox Star workstations (1981) with GlobalView desktop environment.

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August 2022 ▶ PulkoMandy

BeBox63

Then, with all due respect to the venerable Xerox Star, I’d venture that the “hamburger menu” makes little to no sense on a modern desktop and there’s little point spending time to make it work.