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    [–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 53 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I seem to be solidly in a grumpy old man mood tonight.

    You know what was good UI design language? Mid-late 90s Windows/MacOS/BeOS. Buttons looked like buttons and you could see if they were pressed or disabled. Same with sliders, radio button, and every other UI widget. The slight 3D look meant that it was obvious at a glance what was going on. Window corners has little grabbers to show where to grab. Scroll bars showed how much you could scroll, with obvious buttons to do so.

    Everything about flat UI design is bullshit.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

    I think your viewpoint is heavily influenced by nostalgia

    [–] inzen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I agree with this. Might also be nostalgia or might be that the younger generations have not experienced an intuitive ui. I always try to keep an open mind about updates to software, but the flat design stuff has gone too far, a text box is just a line on a solid color background sometimes, how the fuck should anyone know it expects text input unless they have used it before? I'm an experienced software dev I have worked with all kinds of user interfaces on PC's and on industrial equipment, and I find flat design confusing, a bloody cnc controller from the 80's is easier to navigate is some aspects. Rant over. This is just my opinion, consider me an old man jelling at cloud infrastructure or whatever the trending term is.

    [–] rozodru@piefed.world 23 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    I don't know who in the linux community one day decided capsules, rounded edges, and neon colors was a "good look" but I just find it so tacky and amateurish and I'm probably alone in that thinking.

    Also Jetbrains mono as the defacto go to font.

    [–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I absolutely love my bland rectangles with text. Never changed my Waybar theme and I have no rounding on my windows. It's my 15 corner pixels of screen real estate, go away with your fanciness.

    That's how default Waybar looks like if you never installed it.

    [–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

    And that's pretty much still what my waybar looks like. I really don't mind it at all, it's small and minimalistic.

    [–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    That's the same design language windows macos ios and android use so idk where you get amateurish

    [–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    That still doesn’t mean that it’s not a shitty design language that looks like somebody just discovered the circle tool in gimp.

    [–] Jo4ted@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    ...yeah... About that circle tool...

    [–] Trail@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

    Hahahahah. Yeah, indeed....

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    Idk, i do like some rounded corners in my bar and its widgets. The sharp square corners makes it feel like something is missing. Maybe adding a border or outline would fix that, but i don't like using those. I never tried Jetbrains as a font though. I decided to try Mononoki years ago and have never switched to any other mono font since then. After all this time it's still pleasing to my eyes.

    [–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    A lot of people prefer rounded to sharp corners, if given the option. And given that sharp corners are the most bland default for a UI, I'm not even sure how one can call rounded corners amateurish while defending sharp ones: if you put no effort in an interface whatsoever, you end up with sharp corners.

    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

    I hate it. I just want vanilla sway; and i want everything else to look like it too.

    [–] esc@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

    Because they are good look.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    For the same reason people don't want to live in concrete boxes

    Great idea, let's all go live in plastic spheres instead!

    My 4x4 grid of 16 workspaces over two activities in KDE

    [–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

    I hate workspace indicators without an index, I have the following for Sway/Niri/Hyprland.

    • Green bar: Current focused monitor
    • Cyan Bar: Visible workspace on other monitor
    • Gray numbers: Empty workspaces
    • White numbers: Workspaces with winodws

    (I also have 1-5 in left monitor and 6-10 to the right)

    [–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
    • workspace 1 is for rhythmbox & sometimes geary
    • workspace 2 is like the main, for browser
    • worksoace 3 is for main work software
    • workspace 4 is for secondary work software or references/files

    workspace 8 is for ~~porn~~ personal note taking.

    [–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Am I the only person that doesn't understand what I am looking at here? (other than I get that something is displaying or working on the second of eight things - is this some specific UI element I should know?)

    [–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    it is the workspace indicator of gnome

    There are 8 workspaces open (lots of windows) and the second one is currently on display

    [–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

    AH, gotcha, thanks! I've tended to stick closely to KDE out of familiarity so don't know Gnome that well.

    [–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Is this a phone? Like a Linux phone?

    [–] highball@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

    Pretty sure, it's a Gnome Shell extension for active workspaces.

    [–] harmbugler@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

    But do you aim to close them as a stack or a queue