I had a few idle moments today and I did the following uncanny experiment: https://imgur.com/a/Va52eFQ https://imgur.com/a/Va52eFQ A modern, clean theme, basi

I had a few idle moments today and I did the following uncanny experiment: https://imgur.com/a/Va52eFQ https://imgur.com/a/Va52eFQ A modern, clean theme, basically the epitome of modern design (I could have chosen a better color scheme but trust me, it's the same whatever colors you pick) with a monospaced font. The damn font doesn't look out of place at all. It looks straight out of the 1980s, complete with non-descript icons because of the low-res screens and the whopping 16 colors available for everything. We've got super-sharp high-resolution screens where you can barely tell the pixels with a magnifying glass and which can display bazillions of colour. And yet the dominating design paradigm looks like it's dragged out of an era when 640x480 was high-resolution. I initially wrote that it has regressed back to an era when 640x480 was high-resolution, but I suppose that's a little opinionated. To each his own; I've mostly given up trying to get modern systems to look "good" - non-flat, with detailed, suggestive and beautiful icons - it's a lot of hassle, especially when some UI toolkits (e.g. GTK) don't really cater to that sort of UI anymore. But I really hope this fashion will eventually die out and we can once again have computers whose UIs don't look like cartoons.