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> Not that Unity or Gnome is much better. Looking at [1], [2], [3], [4] I would be curious to hear why do you think that they look worse than what i.e. macOS h

> Not that Unity or Gnome is much better. Looking at [1], [2], [3], [4] I would be curious to hear why do you think that they look worse than what i.e. macOS has to offer? 1 - http://i.imgur.com/KIUkPBU.png http://i.imgur.com/KIUkPBU.png 2 - http://i.imgur.com/T5AMpdG.png http://i.imgur.com/T5AMpdG.png 3 - https://i.imgur.com/duA9HpA.png https://i.imgur.com/duA9HpA.png 4 - https://i.imgur.com/c6epiwe.png https://i.imgur.com/c6epiwe.png

leadingthenet 10y ago
Is there a guide on how to make Unity or Gnome look like that? I haven't used either in quite a while.
- petepete 10y ago
  Plenty of info in /r/unixporn https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn
- matwood 10y ago
  This is a good point. All of those screenshots look much better than out of the box Unity, so why is the out of the box look so bad.
rplnt 10y ago
Gnome (or is it Unity?) I have in my Fedora looks nice. Visually much beter than KDE. But it's like 50% empty space. Which is really, really bad. These screenshots look fine to me at the first glance.
unicornporn 10y ago
Those are desktops are quite riced. My experience is that it often looks good in screenshots, but then end up being constant fight to get all aspects of your DE to adhere to your now pimped desktop experience. https://imgur.com/T5AMpdG https://imgur.com/T5AMpdG is a good example of bad design. White space is all over the place. Distance between icon and icon description is too short. Distance between search box and icon grid is too long compared to distance of menu bar. I could go on...
mrweasel 10y ago
Number 3 is actually pretty good. Of cause it's all a matter of personal taste. Personally I'm not to keen on the whole flat look, it makes it less obvious which UI part are clickable. I'm probably not a good person to consult on these things, because I actually think the default fvwm was pretty good.
- type0 10y ago
  > Personally I'm not to keen on the whole flat look, it makes it less obvious which UI part are clickable. I also don't get this why material design and flat look is so popular. I want my icons and UI elements to be visible not blend together in a awful mess and cartoonish colors. No one says that we should go back to the 90s designs but its a terrible fad, specially in the linux themes.

leadingthenet 10y ago

Is there a guide on how to make Unity or Gnome look like that? I haven't used either in quite a while.

petepete 10y ago
Plenty of info in /r/unixporn https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn
matwood 10y ago
This is a good point. All of those screenshots look much better than out of the box Unity, so why is the out of the box look so bad.

rplnt 10y ago

Gnome (or is it Unity?) I have in my Fedora looks nice. Visually much beter than KDE. But it's like 50% empty space. Which is really, really bad. These screenshots look fine to me at the first glance.

unicornporn 10y ago

Those are desktops are quite riced. My experience is that it often looks good in screenshots, but then end up being constant fight to get all aspects of your DE to adhere to your now pimped desktop experience. https://imgur.com/T5AMpdG https://imgur.com/T5AMpdG is a good example of bad design. White space is all over the place. Distance between icon and icon description is too short. Distance between search box and icon grid is too long compared to distance of menu bar. I could go on...

mrweasel 10y ago

Number 3 is actually pretty good. Of cause it's all a matter of personal taste. Personally I'm not to keen on the whole flat look, it makes it less obvious which UI part are clickable. I'm probably not a good person to consult on these things, because I actually think the default fvwm was pretty good.

type0 10y ago
> Personally I'm not to keen on the whole flat look, it makes it less obvious which UI part are clickable. I also don't get this why material design and flat look is so popular. I want my icons and UI elements to be visible not blend together in a awful mess and cartoonish colors. No one says that we should go back to the 90s designs but its a terrible fad, specially in the linux themes.