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    That's UI design, a dark art mere mortals like you and me won't ever understand.

    [–] leo85811nardo@lemmy.world 159 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    "Modern" UI design be like: fat paddings everywhere

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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
    [–] Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

    Also, no right-click menus! You have to click on a three-dot icon at the side of that UI component

    [–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago

    MOAR WHITESPACE

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 102 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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'

    [–] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    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.

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    don't you just fucking love  
     
     
                                                   paddings!  
     
     

    (apologies to everyone whose device can't render HTML entities)

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    maybe this works on more devices?

    
                                                      paddings!
    
    
    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

    That's not padding that's pre!

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    i was going to ask what it was supposed to look like, then i opened a reply text and all i see is &nbsp;

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    The above comment with gratuitous empty spaces around "paddings!"

    Unfortunately, beyond the standard Markdown elements, there is zero feature parity between various front-ends and their Markdown renderers.

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    [–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Never got the Mac trend of not using your full screen. I get even less why Gnome copied it.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

    My less than 10 minutes per month of MacOS (none of which is actually doing much with it) tells me it's because of the tiny buttons on the wrong (/s) side of the window that feel impossible to press and show an up or down button and you never know which is which.

    I am sure that this is totally the perfect representation of the average macos user and not just me lol

    [–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I'm not sure I understand... GTK can use full screens...

    [–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    This is what I am referring to. Many macOS people work like this:

    [–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] GrilledCheese@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    So can OSX for some time now it gives a full screen program it’s own workspace type screen

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    [–] percent@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago

    I think I missed this trend. I've been full-screening almost everything on macOS for years

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    [–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Proper GTK4 adwaita apps don't do that. They scale really well on mobiles to desktops.

    [–] edinbruh@feddit.it 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

    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

    [–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    That looks like it's just wrapping a WebView, is it not?

    It looks like the CSS is just capping the container class width at 1440px, which has nothing to do with GTK

    [–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

    Fair - point still stands though - the application only has a single breakpoint defined at 600sp from a cursory glance, the lack of an ultra-wide specific layout is just because it hasn't been implemented rather than a shortfall of GTK (though I'm not sure you would even want to make the message view wider, as it would impair readability)

    [–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    What is your monitor size?

    (Edit)

    You see the app's font size is on par with the text size of your KDE panel. If gnome increased it, it would look totally out of place.

    Also centering content is a valid design choice. Many websites do that on large/wide monitors. It improves readability. An example might be the design of pi-hole's UI.

    If readability is your issue on gnome on wide screen monitors you should also have issue on reading the time and date on the KDE panel as well.

    [–] edinbruh@feddit.it 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    2560x1080 which is 21:9 full hd. Most programs don't really handle 21:9 displays, but many GTK apps are particularly bad at it

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    [–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

    Even Gtk3 doesn't have that issue when properly coded.

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    [–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    I enjoy using Gnome and don't really encounter any issues in my day to day use

    (pls don't kill me :))

    [–] wer2@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] bilb@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I don't like using GNOME desktop or apps, but that's not because its bad or less capable for my usage. I just don't prefer their design philosophies. I'm grateful that it exists nonetheless. Linux desktop users are spoiled by how many great choices we have.

    [–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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!

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    [–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago

    Damn, did you enlarge Charlie's face for the meme? 😆

    [–] Luci@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Friends don't let friends use GNOME

    KDE4LYFE

    [–] edinbruh@feddit.it 15 points 1 week ago

    Gnome does have a lot of strong points, I personally use both

    [–] kadup@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

    Gnome apps running on my PC:

    I don't use Gnome

    Bottom text

    [–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

    Common gnome L

    [–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Why is Charlie Kirk’s face so big in this?

    [–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Time for a scrolling window manager

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    [–] darksiderbun@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

    Holy fuck, you are right. This is from his Wikipedia page:

    [–] Kiuyn@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

    This is why I don't use GNOME apps on a tiling WM. They always have an absurd amount of padding.

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