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One convention we lost was that text fields have sunken white background and other areas of the UI are generally grey. UI now uses bright white in most places,
by wolpoli 3y ago
One convention we lost was that text fields have sunken white background and other areas of the UI are generally grey. UI now uses bright white in most places, eventually causing the world to invent dark mode.
It's really gone backward.
- Dalewyn 3y agoWe lost any concept of shading and borders, which has made modern day user interfaces absolute hell to navigate because everything melts together and looks the same. Windows 9x/NT4.0 Explorer was the pinnacle of graphical user interfaces.
- o11c 3y agoOne regression that really annoys me: in recent KDE themes, the default "active window" and "background window" titlebar colors are indistinguishable. So you have no clue where all your input events are going to go. And if you actually set them to reasonable colors, certain applications do weird epileptic things (looking at you, Firefox!)