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Turns out design is hard and expensive.

• ad404b8a372f2b9 5y ago
  Meh I think they just don't care. I've been building a desktop environment and installing dozens of existing ones (open source and otherwise) in VMs to examine crucial components. It's appalling how the simplest UI/UX items are broken in most of them. It's stuff that's certainly no harder than the technical stuff that these talented people do otherwise, when you look at the issues and complex bugs reported on Github/Launchpad. But they can't be arsed to put a caps-lock warning on the login screen or have a blinking cursor in their text-field, really basic stuff. As a result I've paused the project and am designing a list of UI/UX specifications for basic desktop environment software. For open-source projects to be friendly to users all we have to do is get the developers to put the editor down and not skip the first step, it's not complicated it's just not a fun technical challenge.
  • naikrovek 5y ago
    I think some people just simply do not notice the little things. and I think those people tend to work on open source UI toolkits.
  • alexvoda 5y ago
    will you publish this?
  • andydotxyz 5y ago
    > or have a blinking cursor in their text-field, really basic stuff. Yay, Fyne text entry has a blinking cursor :). Seriously though it would be amazing to get your input on the FyneDesk project. We take every suggestion seriously and really appreciate PRs too!