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How does open source improve UI? People will pay for convenience. Whether it's closed source or open source is usually priority number 110 000 for them, waaaaa

• aloisdg 4y ago
  How does open source improve UI? well if you dislike something you can see how it works and look to improve it.
  • illiarian 4y ago
    > well if you dislike something you can see how it works and look to improve it. Strange that so much of open-source is actually really bad UI-wise then.
    • aloisdg 4y ago
      After talking with a bunch of designer around me, it is mostly because about the lacks of open source awareness in their community. Beside awareness is a common topic of designers from https://opensourcedesign.net/ https://opensourcedesign.net/ (I met some of them at a FOSDEM).
    • LeoNatan25 4y ago
      Big reason for this is that most “FOSS” teams are hard-core keyboard navigation nerds (no offense intended, we know who we are), and so, their preferences are completely different from what normal computer users want, so even with access to source and unlimited free time, there is a high probability that a pull request would be shut down because the maintainers don’t want or don’t understand why spacing between elements is 8pt (“2px is just as functional as I want it”) and why keyboard autocorrect should be off for that text field (“what is autocorrect? Never heard of it”).
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  • kitsunesoba 4y ago
    As someone who is a proponent of FOSS, in many cases improving the UI of FOSS projects isn’t practical simply because the maintainers won’t accept UI patches and are sometimes even hostile to suggestions. In those situations your only choice is to fork, and keeping a fork up to date with the parent for a non-trivial project takes more time and effort than many can offer.