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I don't know about all of you, I don't like these new flat icons that everyone is using. What ever happened to the old icons, like on iPhone and Samsung they used to have them years ago. Those were good times. Now it is always these stupid boring cartoonish designed icons. Side note: Somebody please update this icon pack. I am trying to use it on xfce on arch but some of the icons aren't working properly because it hasn't been updated in a while. I'll donate to you right away if you do it. Link to the repo: https://github.com/madmaxms/iconpack-obsidian

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[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

I fucking love skeuomorphism !

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I miss UIs having lines and clear separations between elements. I loath this new flat style that everything has to have now, where you can't tell when one thing stops and another starts.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 hours ago

And you can't tell when something is active/focused or not because every goddamn app and web site wants to use its own "design language". Wish I had a dollar for every time I saw two options, one light-gray and one dark-gray, with no way to know whether dark or light was supposed to mean "active".

I miss old-school Mac OS when consistency was king. But even Mac OS abandoned consistency about 25 years ago. I'd say the introduction of "brushed metal" was the beginning of the end, and IIRC that was late 90s. I am old and grumpy.

[–] gortbrown@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago

Kinda, yeah! These kinda remind me of some of the icon packs I used on my jailbroken iPod Touch!

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

i don't, not at all, but still think elementaryOS looks beautiful! Like holy hell, even on their websites they manage to make their design look good!

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

I miss the KDE 3.x crystal theme

[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, I don't understand flatness either. Neither I understand the dark themes either. My eyes and brain simply can't do the separation easily, I spend more time trying to process an image. Old style icons and UI colors are the best IMHO.

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

My primary icon theme and widget style are 20+ years old and not flat in the least. You can still have that look and feel on a real computer if you want it (but you may have to compromise elsewhere or do some extra work). On phones, all bets are off.

Dunno what your issue with that icon pack is, but I'd bet there's a good chance it can be solved with a few file renames or symlinks if you care enough to bother.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I don't know if you'd call that skeuomorphism, and we have icons that are similar.

I'm not sure what you would call the opposite of 'flat' in terms of these designs, but I think that's what you're referring to.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

I do miss them. But I'm happy with my custom Suru++ Aspromauros icons too.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

God, no!

Though these do look pretty, they don't look like the buttons in Windows 95/XP and maybe that's a good thing.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

I liked the soft gradient XP icons, though maybe that's just the nostalgia talking

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I do miss that, but idk how much of it is nostalgia and how much is an absolute aesthetic preference. I think the main reason for the change though is Microsoft trying to make Windows work well on mobile devices though, meaning forgoing the aero and more expensive VFX.

Wish some DEs would make their default style more like a win7 era style. Would be nice to have the variety.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 4 hours ago

No reason they wouldn't work on a small phone, especially back then

photograph of the iPhone 2 with its skeuomorphic icons

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I miss being able to use bitmapped fonts back in the Gnome 1.x days.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago

I miss the time when not all icons were a rectangle or a circle.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It is by no means just you. I really hate how everything has to be so flat and shadow-less nowadays. I'm not at the point of shaking my fist at clouds yet or anything, but I really miss skeuomorphism in general!

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Way beyond fist shaking here. My brain simply doesn't process the trendy flat UX. It looks like when my kitchen garbage can tips over. A piece of carrot here, empty milk crate over there, sprinkled with onion peels, and some unidentified goop that I only discover later in the evening, using my bare feet, while getting a cup of water...

What's weird though is that I similarly hate the circle android icons. They all kinda blend together like a bowl of skittles. Make them squircle though... instantly recognizable!

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I've only used OneUI, on other skins can you not make it that shape?

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I've been using LawnChair, and they've dropped the feature for some time. I think it was being re-written from scratch. It just got back in the last month or so.

[–] Markaos@lemmy.one 1 points 3 hours ago

It was removed in Android 12

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 72 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Sometimes I think that I miss skeuomorphism, but then I realize it's not the skeuomorphism that I miss, but my childhood and days when the world was much simpler.

Would I like to bring back skeuomorphic UIs? Yes.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm too old to be nostalgic for skeuomorphism. But a retina-burning amber monochrome monitor, text mode, with menus and UIs built out of ASCII graphics, or at best, 640 x 480 CPU-driven graphics modes? Now you're talking.

From my perspective, the skeuomorphic era of the early-late 2000s is still "modern".

[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Ha, you and me both buddy, although I like retina burning green :). Let me know what you think of my personal profile site: www.gradyp.com, made it just for the graybeard aesthetic.

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[–] NoLifeGaming@lemmy.world 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kautau@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

For those who haven’t seen snl’s papyrus skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ

Or papyrus 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0

A couple of the best sketches SNL has ever done

[–] blazera@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

This is the first time Ive ever seen those vowels together

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[–] LeLachs@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Quick info, the link does not work. You need to put it in the address part aswell (like this [https://github.com/madmaxms/iconpack-obsidian](https://github.com/madmaxms/iconpack-obsidian) Here is a working one https://github.com/madmaxms/iconpack-obsidian

[–] generaledelsud@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Okay thanks never made a post with a link

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Personally I don't, I kinda hate old skeuomorphism 😅

Neo skeuomorphism has some neat novelty though.

Edit: this is just my personal aesthetic preference, I don't begrudge anyone their love of skeuomorphism, or nostalgia for it.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think I’m in the same place. I really like the idea of icons having depth. Modern icons are very versatile, but lack personality. Having some depth gives them some weight, but never really liked the emphasis on curves and gradients. I think a mix of original Material design and just a hint more depth would be the perfect sweet spot.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm curious how you feel about the GNOME application icons, they sound like they might be up your alley

Right now I generally have a preference for either weird stylized themed stuff I make myself, or very flat stuff like what android currently does for app icons, but I can certainly see the appeal of other stuff :)

I really like the application icons used in Gnome but I really like the consistent line weights and geometry of material symbolic icons so I'm still using a material icon pack on gnome

Edit: Here's a picture I grabbed of icons done in the adwaita style Gnome uses in case you don't use linux and aren't familiar with them. Its not a full sampling, but you get the idea :)

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Take these icons, add one more layer of simple gradient shading: perfection

For example, GIMP’s icon looks especially bad here to me. If it had just a hint of black shading, it would look massively better (imho).

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective with me! ☺️

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Any time! I’m a graphic nerd with none of the book learning, but I do work at a screen printing shop, so I have some intuitive understanding of logo/icon design, but don’t have the theory to go with it.

In other words, I have wildly subjective opinions that I’ll randomly dig my heels in on. (Sometimes when I have no idea what I’m talking about ha!)

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[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 7 points 12 hours ago

i actually hate icons with like shading or 3d look. but I don't really use icons anyway, the only icons i see are in my system tray and when i run wofi

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

I like how tidy it is. But I do prefer to be able to see icon shapes at a glance with my terrible eyesight as it helps identify.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago

My plasma 6 desktop has absolutely stunning icons, and im like you - I like proper icons that look more interesting.

Try plasma 6, I'm sure those icon sets are also much more complete. :)

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No. Old UI is terrible. The newest UI with extremely rounded corners is bad too but I'd much rather use it than old stuff.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

How about flat, easy to recognise icons and straight, square windows and app designs?

Brutalism for your DE!

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

Another thing that's needed are icon labels or alternative text. Apps like LibreOffice suffer from icon-heavy UI which is hard to understand and remember for new users and even for me without any explanations.

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