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The lack of chrome is such a frustrating design trend. In Windows 10 in particular I find it so difficult to find the .. well, windows because everything just k

The lack of chrome is such a frustrating design trend. In Windows 10 in particular I find it so difficult to find the .. well, windows because everything just kind of blends together. There’s something to be said about the workaday utility of how things used to be. They weren’t necessarily beautiful in a conventional sense but they were so much more intuitive.

userbinator 5y ago
https://doctoratlantis.medium.com/how-to-restore-the-borders-around-your-windows-in-windows-10-d480905787f4 https://doctoratlantis.medium.com/how-to-restore-the-borders... https://www.robinhobo.com/how-to-fix-the-borderless-window-problem-in-windows-virtual-desktop/ https://www.robinhobo.com/how-to-fix-the-borderless-window-p... ...and then of course you have the dummies like this who probably caused these idiotic trends: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-rid-of-window-borders/113863 https://forum.level1techs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-rid-of... The real problem is the lack of configurability. You could change the window border width to anywhere from invisible to some insanely huge number on the older versions of Windows, and everyone would be happy. Now you're forced to use whatever some stupid "designer"'s idea is.
- logbiscuitswave 5y ago
  The funny thing is back in Windows 7 and earlier I would tweak my theme to have the thinnest borders possible yet I still didn’t have the whole “where is my window” issue. All those customization options went away starting with Windows 8 when some UI designers decided they knew better than me how my windows should look. Thanks for those links - I’ll play around with those options to see if I can restore some sanity to my desktop.
qwertox 5y ago
It turns the "just shoving windows around and resizing them" from something normal into an act which only a surgeon could feel comfortable with. The mouse is not a scalpel, it's a tool, and if I need to hit a 1px wide border edge (or even worse the corner) in order to resize a window, then it's a terribly bad UI. I loved SGI IRIX's brutally bold borders, but those of Windows 7 are still just as good.
- protomyth 5y ago
  I still wish Windows had a Windows 2000 UI mode. I think the technicolor XP is where Windows UI designers decided usability isn't the main criteria.

userbinator 5y ago

https://doctoratlantis.medium.com/how-to-restore-the-borders-around-your-windows-in-windows-10-d480905787f4 https://doctoratlantis.medium.com/how-to-restore-the-borders... https://www.robinhobo.com/how-to-fix-the-borderless-window-problem-in-windows-virtual-desktop/ https://www.robinhobo.com/how-to-fix-the-borderless-window-p... ...and then of course you have the dummies like this who probably caused these idiotic trends: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-rid-of-window-borders/113863 https://forum.level1techs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-rid-of... The real problem is the lack of configurability. You could change the window border width to anywhere from invisible to some insanely huge number on the older versions of Windows, and everyone would be happy. Now you're forced to use whatever some stupid "designer"'s idea is.

logbiscuitswave 5y ago
The funny thing is back in Windows 7 and earlier I would tweak my theme to have the thinnest borders possible yet I still didn’t have the whole “where is my window” issue. All those customization options went away starting with Windows 8 when some UI designers decided they knew better than me how my windows should look. Thanks for those links - I’ll play around with those options to see if I can restore some sanity to my desktop.

qwertox 5y ago

It turns the "just shoving windows around and resizing them" from something normal into an act which only a surgeon could feel comfortable with. The mouse is not a scalpel, it's a tool, and if I need to hit a 1px wide border edge (or even worse the corner) in order to resize a window, then it's a terribly bad UI. I loved SGI IRIX's brutally bold borders, but those of Windows 7 are still just as good.

protomyth 5y ago
I still wish Windows had a Windows 2000 UI mode. I think the technicolor XP is where Windows UI designers decided usability isn't the main criteria.