I realize that there's been a lot of work behind the drop-buttons, but the fact remains that a) they make assumptions as to which is the most frequently used operation and b) they hide the rest of the operations an extra click away from the user.

Can we have it so that when there's enough space, the operations are displayed as a horizontal list of links (or buttons)? The menu link edit page makes a good use case...

Drop-buttons work great for small screens: drop-button_small_screen

In wide screens (Backdrop/D8) we "force" users to make an additional click while there's so much wasted space: drop-button_wide_screen

Let's make operations work like D7 in wide screens in order to spare the users the extra clicks: operations_links_wide_screen

GitHub Link: 
https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/733
GitHub Issue #: 
733