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I think the author is confusing two different things, the app menu and the app name indicator (one has to click the indicator to raise the menu). I thought the plan was to remove the menu, not the indicator. The author defends the "Appmenu" because it serves as a landmark, "on Gnome 3, I can always tell exactly where I am". To serve that function, one only needs the indicator.

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Yeah that's one of the more direct criticisms I had as well, just like the author

- not realising that (though this is an assumption from me) the most common workflow in GNOME is for applications to have a single window, i.e. users not being aware of distinctions between windows and applications. - thinking that you can only interact with focused windows. The result is that on multiple monitors, you don't need to be constantly aware of which window is focused - except to know which window's menu bar is currently showing.

That said, in broad lines I'm mostly annoyed by the author's trivialising the reasons for things not being the way they'd like them to be, and placing their own intuitions over actual user experiences - as an interaction designer.

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