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I remember when there was consistency in UI design: everything looked like Windows95

• zaptheimpaler 14y ago
  :shudder: Good point.
• jamesgeck0 14y ago
  Far more recently, everything looked like Gnome 2. It was nice because I could launch an application I'd never used before and know how various elements would behave. * Certain shortcut keys would be consistent across applications * Other shortcuts would be customizable by hovering over a menu item and pressing the shortcut keys. * Listboxes could be filtered by typing and a little floating textbox would show what I'd typed. * If I was in a dark room and was using a dark theme, I (probably) wouldn't suddenly have a bright white window blinding me. * The file selector for opening/saving files would be standard. * I'd be able to edit things on networked locations open in Nautilus. And so on and so forth. There were all sorts of nice little touches that everything would have just because it was a Gnome 2 application. Going back to Windows XP, it always felt like everything was competing for my attention by being different in assorted inconsistant ways.
  • grecy 14y ago
    One of my favorite things about Mac OS is the extremely consistent shortcut keys across all apps.
• 10098 14y ago
  Actually, Windows 95 looked better than KDE does today. So... yeah, I probably wouldn't mind if my current desktop looked like win95.