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  • It creates a clear heirarchy of information too. The system owns the title bar, so any operations there are system operations.

    At one point browsers did something similar for security awareness-- real permission prompts, etc. were set a few pixels over into the main UI to establist that they were “real” and not part of the page content.

    Most of the time, we’re not so starved for pixels that we have tp be stealing from the title bar.

    Hell, we lived thtough 640x480 desktops without even the cheat of hamburger menus.











  • We have an entire universe (from snaps up to univere-scale k8s setups) derived from “it works on my machine, so we’ll ship my machine”.

    How much bad software isn’t being shook out because it’s kept alive in a container with just the right dependencies to prevent it from activating bugs and bad assertions?


  • IMO, the real use case for PayPal was really on the seller side.

    When it was 2002 and you weren’t a major business but just wanted to sell three old CDs on eBay or offer dog haberdashery online, it was by far the simplest way to accept a credit-card funded transaction.

    We’re still not a lot better there in 2025. Even with more modern platforms, you can’t really get from zero to accepting cards directly in 15 minutes.


  • What problem does CSD solve? I’d think “some apps look and work differently” is a pretty bad tradeoff for “I want to cram custom stuff in the title bar which was more or less universally treated as owned-by-the-system for the first 35 years of GUIs at least?”

    GTK/GNOME seem to be making themselves actively hostile towards customization, which seems a great way to lose enthusiasts.