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Am I the only one who finds Inferno incredibly ugly compared Plan9’s UI?

• octetta 6y ago
  While I absolutely LOVE Inferno "philosophically", I agree it doesn't win UI beauty awards... the source is all there and I could probably show my love there by updating things.
• pjmlp 6y ago
  A consequence of picking Tk as GUI toolkit, once loved across the UNIX world.
  • icedchai 6y ago
    I taught myself Tcl/Tk back in the 90's. It was relatively simple to develop UIs with it. I remember the Tk layout manager was more pleasant than fighting with CSS...
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      Yep, that is why when modern Web developers talk about responsive design being invented by the Web, it just shows not having a proper background in native toolkits.
• jd3 6y ago
  > the clean appearance of the screen comes mostly from laziness, but the color scheme is (obviously) deliberate. the intent was to build on an observation by edward tufte that the human system likes nature and nature is full of pale colors, so something you’re going to look at all day might best serve if it were also in relaxing shades. renee french helped me with the specifics of the color scheme (she’s a professional illustrator and my color vision is suspect), once i’d figured out how i wanted it to look. there are still some features of the color system that i put in that i think no one has ever noticed. that’s a good thing, in my opinion; the colors should fade away, if you’ll pardon the expression. having used other systems with different approaches to color screens, most especially windows XP (extra pukey), i think tufte was right. -rob rob pike discussing the design of plan9 on the 9fans mailing list back in 2003. https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558908224071 https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558908224071