I just accidentally clicked the “clear all” on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks
Anyway, what are your unpopular UI opinions?
Window drag bars shouldn’t be full of clutter.
Yeah, I’m looking at you especially Microsoft, with random toolbar buttons, search box (!), and lord knows what else crammed into the drag bar of your applications. So much so that there’s very little actual drag bar to grab should I (gasp) actually want to move the window somewhere else.
Which brings me onto windows should not all be full screen. Especially with the size and resolution of modern monitors, there’s no reason to have everything full screen all the time. But, from what I’ve seen, most people do. I think this is why drag bars are increasingly being filled with garbage. And probably why lots of apps seem to be designed to only run full screen size.
I miss the consistency you had in old GUIs. A window is a window, and it has a border, a title and some buttons to control it.
I despise client side decorations, like Gnome has. It makes all windows a special snowflake. Window decorations are the window manager’s responsibility.
Designers: “Now you can put your most important feature or two right in the bar!”
Developers: “Eight. I will add eight.”