• BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    14 days ago

    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.

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    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.

    • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

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

      • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

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

    • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      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.