That’s UI design, a dark art mere mortals like you and me won’t ever understand.
“Modern” UI design be like: fat paddings everywhere
Don’t forget:
- Massive fucking fonts
- No visual separation between UI elements
- Hijacked scrolling
- Everything shoved into animated menus
- One (1) context action in the bottom right
Also, no right-click menus! You have to click on a three-dot icon at the side of that UI component
MOAR WHITESPACE
the edits to charlie kirk’s face are so subtle these days, I can’t tell if this is the original or has been slightly modified.
It had been so long since I’d seen his real face that I didn’t know how it actually looked like anymore. I saw a clip of him a few days ago and thought ‘oh, they aren’t changing it that much’
there was this real or fake quiz online that shows Kirk’s face and you try to tell whether it’s edited. it was really funny because it was actually hard to tell.
Gnome apps running on my PC:
I don’t use Gnome
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Never got the Mac trend of not using your full screen. I get even less why Gnome copied it.
I’m not sure I understand… GTK can use full screens…
This is what I am referring to. Many macOS people work like this:
I’ve been forced onto a shit mac book with this stupid OS for the first time in my life and spend 90% of the tine interacting with it basically trying to work around how bad window management and many other things are. Hacks and custom apps and changing options to try to make sense of it. I’m in this hell hole for 2 months now. I still have no idea or feeling for how or when windows behave or if they even become maximized or not. I hate it all.
The worst offender is opening the system settings and it’s a stupid window that can’t be maximized in anyway whatsoever and just sits there looking like an horrendous thing being frustrating.
But after using it I’ve finally understood where so many bad decisions gnome for example is stealing their ideas from.
don’t you just fucking love
paddings!
(apologies to everyone whose device can’t render HTML entities)
maybe this works on more devices?
paddings!
That’s not padding that’s pre!
i was going to ask what it was supposed to look like, then i opened a reply text and all i see is
Unfortunately, beyond the standard Markdown elements, there is zero feature parity between various front-ends and their Markdown renderers.
Okay so I remember seeing this exact post yesterday. Not that this is stolen, like this exact post. I read some of the comments and chuckled because tiny face Charlie Kirk is funny. I saw a picture of him on a video this morning and never realized that HIS FACE IS ACTUALLY KINDA LIKE THAT WHY IS IT SO SMALL AND CENTERED.
I enjoy using Gnome and don’t really encounter any issues in my day to day use
(pls don’t kill me :))
I used to be a GNOME fanatic a couple of years ago. I switched to KDE after I got tired of the perpetually broken state of extensions.
I’m still thankful for all the effort and commitment the GNOME devs have invested over the years though! It’s an excellent desktop environment!
I don’t like Gnome, but I am glad it works for you. At the end of the day Gnome is better than Windows, Mac, and CDE.
CDE? First time hearing of this. Off to google. :)
It was an effort by multiple Unix vendors to create a common desktop environment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment
I don’t mean to be pedantic, but why do people shit on DEs? I don’t like KDE, but I’ll never say an ill word about it. The whole point of Linux and open source in general is that we have choice. If you don’t like gnome, that’s fine, move along to your interface of choice. Come on, there are better things to argue about.
It’s never about the DE’s themselves, it’s about the devs.
KDE’s devs are just focused on making a cool desktop environment with many features. It’s a little buggy and has some weird design decisions, but whatever, no biggie.
GNOME devs deliberately sabbotage existing linux standards in attemps to take control over desktop linux. Examples: client-side decorations, client-side shadows, systray fiasco.
This is not a question of personal preference. It’s a question of keeping desktop linux free, fair, and accessible for everyone.
You’re feeding the fire. Just use what you like and let the other DEs do their thing. You can totally exist without shitting on what other people prefer.
Did you even read my comment? This has nothing to do with personal preference. It’s a matter of defending a shared commons from a hostile force. Sure, an individual gnome user can coexist with an individual kde user, like seriously who cares its just a DE. But as a community, users of other DEs, WMs and compositors can only “coexist” with the gnome project in the same way that a population of humans can “coexist” with the COVID-19 virus
I interpret this being more about how GNOME apps function in general, also on other desktops, which is fair criticism.
That’s fine, move along. No need to crap on the hard work of the OSS people that work on anything.
Proper GTK4 adwaita apps don’t do that. They scale really well on mobiles to desktops.
Counterargument:
Admittedly this is a chat app, so there’s little to do. But still, it could stretch out a little bit more, maybe open the conversation info panel on the right