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.
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.
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.
::: spoiler That's how default Waybar looks like if you never installed it.
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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.
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.
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?)
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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.
I think your viewpoint is heavily influenced by nostalgia
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.
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.
::: spoiler That's how default Waybar looks like if you never installed it. :::
And that's pretty much still what my waybar looks like. I really don't mind it at all, it's small and minimalistic.
That's the same design language windows macos ios and android use so idk where you get amateurish
That still doesn’t mean that it’s not a shitty design language that looks like somebody just discovered the circle tool in gimp.
...yeah... About that circle tool...
Hahahahah. Yeah, indeed....
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.
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.
I hate it. I just want vanilla sway; and i want everything else to look like it too.
For the same reason people don't want to live in concrete boxes
Great idea, let's all go live in plastic spheres instead!
Because they are good look.
My 4x4 grid of 16 workspaces over two activities in KDE
I hate workspace indicators without an index, I have the following for Sway/Niri/Hyprland.
(I also have 1-5 in left monitor and 6-10 to the right)
workspace 8 is for
pornpersonal note taking.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?)
it is the workspace indicator of gnome
There are 8 workspaces open (lots of windows) and the second one is currently on display
AH, gotcha, thanks! I've tended to stick closely to KDE out of familiarity so don't know Gnome that well.
Is this a phone? Like a Linux phone?
Pretty sure, it's a Gnome Shell extension for active workspaces.