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> The UI of Calls has made some strides to look like the mockups from the design team. Below you can see the implementation (left) next to the mockup (right).
by ken 8y ago
> The UI of Calls has made some strides to look like the mockups from the design team. Below you can see the implementation (left) next to the mockup (right).
Is there a reason the programmers couldn't just implement the design as given? They added a bunch of useless borders and gradients, and removed all the labels. This looks exactly like the Parable of the Concept Car: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/08/12/concept-cars https://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/08/12/concept-cars
- iBelieve 8y agoThe outer border and shadow appears to be from the default window decorations, which I expect they'll remove in some non-app-specific method. The top bar is the standard window headerbar, which they'll probably remove as well, at least for the dialer screen. The gradients are part of the default GTK theme. Not sure about the button labels, as it's been a while since I touched GTK development - there may not be an easy way to add labels under an image in a button. EDIT: designs almost always look nicer than the first pass at implementing them, as designers can put pixels wherever they want to make things look pretty, while developers are constrained by the technical restrictions of the frameworks being used.
- sincerely 8y agoMaybe I'm misunderstanding that parable, but isn't that the opposite of the parable?
- flukus 8y ago> Is there a reason the programmers couldn't just implement the design as given? They added a bunch of useless borders and gradients, and removed all the labels. Pretty sure they just used the existing GTK theme, the didn't add anything. If you're worried about how it looks you can install you're own theme and have it apply in every app.