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Long press menu, revert to older style option.

The new long press menu is less minimal, more colourful and more busy and hectic, and for some people, especially neurodivergent folks, it's actually harder for the eye to follow what needs to be done clearly. Also, I'm a long time pro supporter of Niagara, and hopefully it shouldn't be too hard to create a setting to allow us to decide for ourselves if we prefer the new menu. In terms of clean, simple and minimal, I do feel that the old menu did this better, and I personally find the colours and additional icons on the long press menu actually make it harder to see what you're trying to do, rather than easier. I don't think icons and colours add value for productivity when we know what we're trying to look for in words. For example I recently wanted to hide an app, and it took longer than before to choose the correct option, because the colours and icons made it harder to find the menu item I was looking for. I hope you can listen to the feedback and at least give us the option to have things in the way we prefer.

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  • Surfer Bot

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    Nov 12

    Thanks for spelling out the readability side, Tejas. The same wish is already collected here: App long press menu. Upvoting it there is the best way to push it, since we go through requests roughly by upvotes, and your example of the colors and icons slowing you down when hiding an app is a use case worth adding to that post.

    Also good to know: v1.16.37 (released November 11) restructured this menu again and moved rarely used options into an "Advanced" section, so it may look different once that update reaches you.

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