At least they're being honest, white text in a black box.
Hmmm, now what does that remind me of?
As long as the menus are still there, great.
The biggest problem with all of these menu GUI replacements is that they lack "discoverability". i.e. they are not browseable.
All very well typing a couple of letters if you know what you are looking for, for example if you have read the manual.
We
do all read the manual don't we?
And of course there
always is a manual isn't there?
I often help people with software that I have never seen before, and the first thing I do is browse the menus to see what sort of options are available, which is difficult, if not impossible with the ribbon and its ilk.
We have a software industry that can't even agree on the usage of "preferences", "settings", " options", "customisation" and "configuration" or where to put them, even in applications from the same company.
The sig between the asterisks is so cool that only REALLY COOL people can even see it!
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