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I like having a small gap. It pleases me to use a Desktop environment that looks like it at least belongs in this decade. Edit: I realise some people are okay
by spoiler 4y ago
I like having a small gap. It pleases me to use a Desktop environment that looks like it at least belongs in this decade.
Edit: I realise some people are okay with the brutalist design due to it being the most efficient use of screen space possible, but my brain needs a "pleasing" environment, otherwise it affects my... Mood? I'm not quite sure what it is, but to not muddle the point, having a nice environment makes me more productive
- tekla 4y agoI have no idea what this means. What WM adds completely useless gaps between windows? Both Windows and MacOs do not such thing. How do gaps make a WM look like it belongs to this decade?
- mo_42 4y agoIf there are people who like gaps, it's not useless. It has value for them.
- bee_rider 4y agoI’m not sure how we determine what looks like it belongs to this decade, but surely these legacy desktop environments don’t push the envelope or tell us much, really. I mean if we use Windows as a standard, the way to tell which decade we’re in is by counting the number of totally different UI styles we have, right?
- mgaunard 4y agoWindows XP has round borders, there is no way it can tile without gaps.
- spoiler 4y agoI'm not a designer, so I can't really tell you why the little bit of extra negative space helps. Maybe just the fact that a little bit of the background can bleed through makes it seem more modern, and its easier to distinguish focused windows. Default i3 just gives me like... 90iea vibes, but not in a nostalgic way but a regressive way. Maybe it's just a matter of different tastes.