• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 hours ago

    When I’m imagining some Win3.11-style UI, like in Star Wars: Rebellion game, I feel that a search box in the taskbar would be fine. The results should come up in a new normal separate window, of course. Not in a poisoned version of star menu.

    The issue is not with having a control element in the taskbar. The issue is with those control elements being very hard to use. The response times are bad. The elements are not clearly separated. The results coming up are hard to navigate. It’s as if you were badly drugged and trying to find something in a heap of black sheets with luminous text in a dark room.

    And also dynamic search on every change of that field is idiotic. They might do auto-completion if it’s fast.