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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 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.
I think your viewpoint is heavily influenced by nostalgia
Is this a phone? Like a Linux phone?
Pretty sure, it’s a Gnome Shell extension for active workspaces.
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.
That’s the same design language windows macos ios and android use so idk where you get amateurish
For the same reason people don’t want to live in concrete boxes
Great idea, let’s all go live in plastic spheres instead!
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)
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
- 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
pornpersonal note taking.But do you aim to close them as a stack or a queue
