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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:55:19 +0100
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On 2025-06-09, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:47:29 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:
>
>>> LibreOffice doesn’t suffer from this problem: it has a “Sidebar”
>>> which -- you guessed it -- sits along the side, taking up space
>>> along the dimension which already has lots of it to spare.
>> 
>> MS Office got rid of the sidebar they had?
>
> They never had a Sidebar. They had lots of menus, and ways to customize 
> them to try to simplify things. And lots of users confused by customized 
> menus, forgetting they had customized them and wondering where certain 
> features had gone.

https://clipart-library.com/img/1719352.jpg
https://i.redd.it/nb03i8jl8n841.png

-- 
Nuno Silva