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> it has become simple to use for the masses It has? I use gnome bits daily and it's a mess of inconsistent and zero-ux-background-so-i-came-up-with-my-own par

by pxmpxm 4y ago

> it has become simple to use for the masses It has? I use gnome bits daily and it's a mess of inconsistent and zero-ux-background-so-i-came-up-with-my-own paradigms. There's no reason why the gterminal, for example, should replace the top most item in the right click menu with hex/oct representation of a number you happen to have selected, or every gnome app keeping affordances in "fun" new places: Compare gedit vs gnome-weather vs gnote vs gcontacts - sometimes there's a hamburger menu, other times there's contextual stuff under an icon, or a button, or a button with a contextual menu. Variety is the spice of life, right? If you're crushing it usability, you certainly can gloat about my way or the highway type of philosophy, but gnome is in no danger of that.

jeroenhd 4y ago
> There's no reason why the gterminal, for example, should replace the top most item in the right click menu with hex/oct representation of a number you happen to have selected I like it. It's useful during programming and it never gets in the way of anything. If you're going minimalist, why even use the right click menu at all? > Compare gedit vs gnome-weather vs gnote vs gcontacts - sometimes there's a hamburger menu, other times there's contextual stuff under an icon, or a button, or a button with a contextual menu. Variety is the spice of life, right? Most options with descriptions are behind the kebab menu on every app, quick controls are icon buttons. It all looks pretty consistent to me. gedit's open/save buttons are a bit weird, I suppose, but if that's all then I don't see the problem, really. You'll find inconsistencies like these on every OS. KDE has its fair share of wonkiness as well if you switch. Even Windows, the most popular operating system in the world, has a range of hamburger menu icons and placements.
tristan957 4y ago
You seem pretty out of date on your opinion. gedit is not in GNOME anymore. GNOME Weather is definitely consistent with the test of the desktop since people did a lot of porting in 42 and 43 to implement designs. GNote is not even a core GNOME application. GNOME Contacts is probably under maintained, but I'm sure if you see design issues, you would bring them up on the issue tracker instead of rambling in a HN comment.

by pxmpxm 4y ago

jeroenhd 4y ago

> There's no reason why the gterminal, for example, should replace the top most item in the right click menu with hex/oct representation of a number you happen to have selected I like it. It's useful during programming and it never gets in the way of anything. If you're going minimalist, why even use the right click menu at all? > Compare gedit vs gnome-weather vs gnote vs gcontacts - sometimes there's a hamburger menu, other times there's contextual stuff under an icon, or a button, or a button with a contextual menu. Variety is the spice of life, right? Most options with descriptions are behind the kebab menu on every app, quick controls are icon buttons. It all looks pretty consistent to me. gedit's open/save buttons are a bit weird, I suppose, but if that's all then I don't see the problem, really. You'll find inconsistencies like these on every OS. KDE has its fair share of wonkiness as well if you switch. Even Windows, the most popular operating system in the world, has a range of hamburger menu icons and placements.

tristan957 4y ago

You seem pretty out of date on your opinion. gedit is not in GNOME anymore. GNOME Weather is definitely consistent with the test of the desktop since people did a lot of porting in 42 and 43 to implement designs. GNote is not even a core GNOME application. GNOME Contacts is probably under maintained, but I'm sure if you see design issues, you would bring them up on the issue tracker instead of rambling in a HN comment.