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I didn't know big tech companies were still capable of making GUI's that look like this.

by etaioinshrdlu 5y ago

unixhero 5y ago
It looks really useful!
- vbezhenar 5y ago
  It's gorgeous. Like a breath of fresh air after all that electron nightmare.
  - michaelcampbell 5y ago
    I don't see the correlation. I get that people don't like electron bloat, but that is orthogonal to UI/UX, no?
    - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
      The issue with Electron is that devs tries to mimic the browsers UI in a desktop environment. Our desktop OS need to have a desktop UI instead of the mobile webpage with Material/Flat UI design (no visual box line, no separators, no multi-windows, pushing the setting menu as a sidebar, etc). It should be treated as a desktop app with the benefits of desktop, not a mobile app which is the issue.
hmottestad 5y ago
It’s based on visual studio.
- scq 5y ago
  It's not. It's using WinForms with the DockPanel Suite library, with a VS2015 theme.
- electroly 5y ago
  It's not. This is a regular .NET Windows Forms app and the docking/tabbing stuff is DockPanelSuite, I'd recognize it a mile away. This is confirmed by poking around in their .csproj.
malf 5y ago
In my mind that keyboard navigable tree widget is the one redeeming feature of windows. I guess the age of “keyboard first” is long gone :(
- contravariant 5y ago
  Nowadays I'm happy if it even bothers to register all keystrokes. Somehow this has become more difficult now that CPUs are many times faster and don't need to queue all keystrokes to ensure they are taken care of eventually.
- seized 5y ago
  Except for tab always being backwards for me. It goes up...
amluto 5y ago
You mean a UI in which all the clickable elements are obvious, features are discoverable, it’s fairly obvious what you’re interacting with, and keyboard navigation works well? I didn’t know big tech companies could still do this either.
moontear 5y ago
To me it looks very much like mRemoteNG (https://mremoteng.org/ https://mremoteng.org/). Is this just because the same WinForms libraries were used or is there some meat to this?
- __float 5y ago
  It looks like it's just the same WinForms - they don't seem to share any code.
korijn 5y ago
I can't tell if you think it's a good thing or not. I'm personally impressed; I bet it hardly uses any memory!
jonpalmisc 5y ago
In my opinion, this looks far better and more usable than a lot of new UIs nowadays. I’d say appearance != usability, and while this might look a bit dated, it probably behaves a lot more like a desktop application than most Electron apps out there.
- znpy 5y ago
  Indeed, that GUI is awesome.
kevingadd 5y ago
It looks like this because it's C# and probably using standard UI frameworks instead of hot new buzzword tech or Electron.
- merb 5y ago
  it's .net framework 4.X and I really do wonder why...
dekhn 5y ago
you mean: one that is simple, works, represents the underlying model with a tree, and runs on a desktop?

I didn't know big tech companies were still capable of making GUI's that look like this.

unixhero 5y ago

It looks really useful!

vbezhenar 5y ago
It's gorgeous. Like a breath of fresh air after all that electron nightmare.
- michaelcampbell 5y ago
  I don't see the correlation. I get that people don't like electron bloat, but that is orthogonal to UI/UX, no?
  - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
    The issue with Electron is that devs tries to mimic the browsers UI in a desktop environment. Our desktop OS need to have a desktop UI instead of the mobile webpage with Material/Flat UI design (no visual box line, no separators, no multi-windows, pushing the setting menu as a sidebar, etc). It should be treated as a desktop app with the benefits of desktop, not a mobile app which is the issue.

hmottestad 5y ago

It’s based on visual studio.

scq 5y ago
It's not. It's using WinForms with the DockPanel Suite library, with a VS2015 theme.
electroly 5y ago
It's not. This is a regular .NET Windows Forms app and the docking/tabbing stuff is DockPanelSuite, I'd recognize it a mile away. This is confirmed by poking around in their .csproj.

malf 5y ago

In my mind that keyboard navigable tree widget is the one redeeming feature of windows. I guess the age of “keyboard first” is long gone :(

contravariant 5y ago
Nowadays I'm happy if it even bothers to register all keystrokes. Somehow this has become more difficult now that CPUs are many times faster and don't need to queue all keystrokes to ensure they are taken care of eventually.
seized 5y ago
Except for tab always being backwards for me. It goes up...

amluto 5y ago

You mean a UI in which all the clickable elements are obvious, features are discoverable, it’s fairly obvious what you’re interacting with, and keyboard navigation works well? I didn’t know big tech companies could still do this either.

moontear 5y ago

To me it looks very much like mRemoteNG (https://mremoteng.org/ https://mremoteng.org/). Is this just because the same WinForms libraries were used or is there some meat to this?

__float 5y ago
It looks like it's just the same WinForms - they don't seem to share any code.

korijn 5y ago

I can't tell if you think it's a good thing or not. I'm personally impressed; I bet it hardly uses any memory!

jonpalmisc 5y ago

In my opinion, this looks far better and more usable than a lot of new UIs nowadays. I’d say appearance != usability, and while this might look a bit dated, it probably behaves a lot more like a desktop application than most Electron apps out there.

znpy 5y ago
Indeed, that GUI is awesome.

kevingadd 5y ago

It looks like this because it's C# and probably using standard UI frameworks instead of hot new buzzword tech or Electron.

merb 5y ago
it's .net framework 4.X and I really do wonder why...

dekhn 5y ago

you mean: one that is simple, works, represents the underlying model with a tree, and runs on a desktop?