while im dropping stale hot takes about uis that developers like, i think command palettes are a trap
they are not discoverable and they hide away bad ui decisions by pretending that the ui doesnt matter
it's wild to me that obsidian mobile dedicates one of the four cardinal directions you can swipe in to opening the command palette
i donot want to type anything on my phone. the least i type on a touchscreen, the healthier and sexier i become. i would prefer if swiping down showed me a set of configurable buttons or maybe opened that ribbon menu
except some plugins don't let you do anything from the ribbon menu because they assume that everyone will access them from the command palette
you stopped using atom because it was slow
i stopped using atom because like 90% of plugins were only accessible from the command palette
we are not the same
i say all this as a daily user of the command line and of nvim so take it with a grain of salt
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anyway i think it's wild that no other desktop has adopted that thing macos has (had?) where you could just search through the menus
like the "help" menu of most apps has a search box in it and once you click on a thing you want, it opens the corresponding menu and highlights that thing
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i don't know if that's still a thing in modern macos but every time i have to use a command palette im thinkin, man, it would be nice if you would show me how to do this myself next time, maybe tell me a keyboard shortcut or something
rip to the menubar though i guess
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@codl macOS still has it (I think it might only appear on apps with ≥n menu items, or need to be enabled by the developer), but I do use it a lot, especially in stuff like Photoshop
