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Interesting. I was running KDE too, but I never was forced to use Windows 7/Aero until later. Personally I feel like Aero was by far the best-looking Windows
by shiroiuma 3y ago
Interesting. I was running KDE too, but I never was forced to use Windows 7/Aero until later. Personally I feel like Aero was by far the best-looking Windows ever, even though I never liked using Windows due to non-aesthetic problems.
- pxc 3y agoWhen I think about individual features of the UI in isolation, it's easy to appreciate many small touches that I can see are quite nice. Transparency with blur, the glow effects on mouseover, the way it flattened a little bit compared to Vista but still returned some skeuomorphic sheen/gradients/animations, etc. Other things, I think I enjoyed at the time, but resent in retrospect— the oversized window titlebars, for example, which proved to be a step towards Windows contemporary profligate wastefulness with screen space. In some cases, evolutionary advances in Windows 7 UI were a step in the right direction (by me), but that of course means that I think later Windowses did it better. A good example here is the search-driven aspects of the start menu, which were introduced (IIRC) when Vista succeeded XP, and gradually increased with each release since. I think menus suck and search is awesome, so imo the way contemporary GNOME or Windows 11 display search results more centrally (and using more of the screen) is more appealing. Anyhow, I do understand what you mean, I think, about the aesthetic of Windows 7 being exceptionally good among Windows aesthetics. Certain visual elements definitely seem to have hit a sweet spot in that release.