{"id":13005,"date":"2012-07-31T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=13005"},"modified":"2012-07-31T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:37:18","slug":"curse-the-appearing-ghost-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/curse-the-appearing-ghost-menus\/","title":{"rendered":"Curse the appearing ghost menus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what I&#8217;m talking about?  They are everywhere.  Here are a few places you can find them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In recent WordPress installs, in the comment management section, the menu that gives you &#8220;save, edit, spam&#8221; etc choices is invisible until you move your cursor near it.<\/li>\n<li>In Unity, all the menus are invisible until you approach them, even the entire set of application menus that are not mac-esquely along the top (but invisibly so). <\/li>\n<li>Also in Unity, all the other menus, as I recall. (I ditched Unity as soon as I learned how, about two hours after installing it.)<\/li>\n<li>Gnome 2-point-whatever (the current version, contaminated by Unity) the damn scroll bar does not appear until you approach it with your cursor, and you better damn well know where it is because otherwise you won&#8217;t find it very easily.<\/li>\n<li>There are a few such menus in Mac OS X, mainly the top menu bar when you&#8217;ve maxed the app&#8230;but that is actually when the menu is supposed to disappear, so that&#8217;s appropriate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no way that most of these &#8220;I won&#8217;t be visible to you unless you know that I exist and where I might be and try to click on me good luck with that&#8221; (iwbvtyuyktieawimbatrcomglwt or just &#8220;glwt&#8221; for short) user interfaces are good. They are just a style.  It is a technology that came into being and is now being used and abused and foisted upon us by user interface &#8220;designers&#8221; (I use that word laughingly) for no other reason than that it exists.  It. Is. Stupid.<\/p>\n<p>How long does it take for these fads to pass?  Let&#8217;s try to speed it up, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what I&#8217;m talking about? They are everywhere. Here are a few places you can find them: In recent WordPress installs, in the comment management section, the menu that gives you &#8220;save, edit, spam&#8221; etc choices is invisible until you move your cursor near it. In Unity, all the menus are invisible until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/curse-the-appearing-ghost-menus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Curse the appearing ghost menus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3nL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}