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I'm really curious what the current definition of "minimalistic" is.

by creshal 3y ago

gnicholas 3y ago
Seems fairly minimalistic to me. What strikes you as undeserving of this descriptor?
- creshal 3y ago
  • Code: Bloated react mess that's bigger than the entire internal storage of early e-reader hardware • Design: You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds • Features: Again, fully featured, better than some e-reader hardware Compared to what is it minimalistic by what metric?
  - zuminator 3y ago
    I think that by minimalistic they mean an uncluttered, uncomplicated interface.
    - fake-name 3y ago
      A.K.A. all the buttons are hidden so half the functions are impossible to discover.
    - mhd 3y ago
      Which ebook reader does something horrible here? When not adjusting settings or loading books, most of them just display a book-like page. I haven't encountered one yet with Office-like toolbars or whatever Acrobat thinks it's doing. "No skeuomorphic book shelf" seems like a low bar.
  - coldtea 3y ago
    It's about the GUI, not about the code. >You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds Those are already minimal. This is too.
    - creshal 3y ago
      > Those are already minimal. This is too. If everything is minimalistic, nothing is.
      - coldtea 3y ago
        Actually, no, if everything is minimalistic, everything is. It's not a relative term, it's more of a specific quality and philosophy. Same way if every new paiting for some reason starts being pointilistic, they don't cease to be pointilistic just because its the absolute norm. (And even if it was a relative term, we do have experiece with non minimalistic software from the past, so we can still considered a current crop of software were everything is much more sparse and streamlined as "minimalistic" compared to that). In any case, we're not talking about everything, just these two and any other that fits the description.
arcanemachiner 3y ago
Only 300MB of npm dependencies.
gyulai 3y ago
> I'm really curious what the current definition of "minimalistic" is. Things like cutting off content that overruns the screen size, without giving any indication that this has happened, and also hiding scrollbars, so as to make it impossible to navigate to that content if you have neither a mousewheel nor a gesture-capable device. -- Not saying that this is what Alexandria is doing; just cracking a joke about modern designs with "minimalist" inclinations in general.
- indy 3y ago
  Prioritising how good the screenshots look on lists of "top 10 examples of minimalistic design" over usefulness to the user.
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unsungNovelty 3y ago
The person meant "simple" and not "minimal". I have been trying to use these two words properly as well. We use these 2 words interchangeably without realising the one doesn't mean the other. But also, this is Tauri based, so from author's POV, definitely minimal than electronjs right? ;)
anotheryou 3y ago
clean layout, not too many features (yet). I guess

I'm really curious what the current definition of "minimalistic" is.

gnicholas 3y ago

Seems fairly minimalistic to me. What strikes you as undeserving of this descriptor?

creshal 3y ago
• Code: Bloated react mess that's bigger than the entire internal storage of early e-reader hardware • Design: You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds • Features: Again, fully featured, better than some e-reader hardware Compared to what is it minimalistic by what metric?
- zuminator 3y ago
  I think that by minimalistic they mean an uncluttered, uncomplicated interface.
  - fake-name 3y ago
    A.K.A. all the buttons are hidden so half the functions are impossible to discover.
  - mhd 3y ago
    Which ebook reader does something horrible here? When not adjusting settings or loading books, most of them just display a book-like page. I haven't encountered one yet with Office-like toolbars or whatever Acrobat thinks it's doing. "No skeuomorphic book shelf" seems like a low bar.
- coldtea 3y ago
  It's about the GUI, not about the code. >You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds Those are already minimal. This is too.
  - creshal 3y ago
    > Those are already minimal. This is too. If everything is minimalistic, nothing is.
    - coldtea 3y ago
      Actually, no, if everything is minimalistic, everything is. It's not a relative term, it's more of a specific quality and philosophy. Same way if every new paiting for some reason starts being pointilistic, they don't cease to be pointilistic just because its the absolute norm. (And even if it was a relative term, we do have experiece with non minimalistic software from the past, so we can still considered a current crop of software were everything is much more sparse and streamlined as "minimalistic" compared to that). In any case, we're not talking about everything, just these two and any other that fits the description.

arcanemachiner 3y ago

Only 300MB of npm dependencies.

gyulai 3y ago

> I'm really curious what the current definition of "minimalistic" is. Things like cutting off content that overruns the screen size, without giving any indication that this has happened, and also hiding scrollbars, so as to make it impossible to navigate to that content if you have neither a mousewheel nor a gesture-capable device. -- Not saying that this is what Alexandria is doing; just cracking a joke about modern designs with "minimalist" inclinations in general.

indy 3y ago
Prioritising how good the screenshots look on lists of "top 10 examples of minimalistic design" over usefulness to the user.

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unsungNovelty 3y ago

The person meant "simple" and not "minimal". I have been trying to use these two words properly as well. We use these 2 words interchangeably without realising the one doesn't mean the other. But also, this is Tauri based, so from author's POV, definitely minimal than electronjs right? ;)

anotheryou 3y ago

clean layout, not too many features (yet). I guess