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> Inconsistent padding, font sizes, colors. But enough about Mac OS Tahoe!
by dmd 1y ago
> Inconsistent padding, font sizes, colors.
But enough about Mac OS Tahoe!
- carlosjobim 1y agoGnome has been the best looking desktop for about 5 years now, with OS X in second place. KDE and Windows (after 7) are so far below that they're a category of their own. Apple should at once hire the people who are responsible for Gnome's UI, because they've got it figured out. Even better, put back together the Nokia N9 GUI team.
- flohofwoe 1y agoNot sure if you're serious or missing an /s there ;)
- carlosjobim 1y agoI honestly think so, but I'm not surprised some losers here at HN down voted my comment. There's many things to not like with Gnome, but they've got the user interface figured out. Contrast is correct both in light mode and dark mode. Readability is excellent. Margins and paddings are consistent across the board. Buttons, checkboxes and other gizmos look exactly as they should, with subtle shadows and 3D effects. Border radiuses are consistent and not to large. Icons are not great, but that's the same on all desktop environments now. OS X had great icons, but that age is over. And since they have all the important basics correct, it is trivial to fix any short comings in the UI. The team deserves praise for what they've achieved.
- distances 1y ago> I'm not surprised some losers here at HN down voted my comment. You're sabotaging hard your own messaging with comments like this.
- carlosjobim 1y agoI don't concern myself too much, the value of votes are zero anyway, and the value of people who down vote is zero as well as far as I'm concerned. I have never down voted anything another person has written, I just think it's base behaviour.
- eth0up 1y agoYou have at least one insignificant person on your side. I similarly almost never downvote. But they disabled my voting ability because I upvoted too generously. There are many cruel and pugnacious creatures here. Indeed, it's best to remain indifferent, lest... behavioral modification ensue, and one become strange.
- codr7 1y agoYeah, the first rule of HN is that you don't talk about downvotes/censoring.
- ziml77 1y agoThat is entirely a matter of taste and familiarity
- dimgl 1y agoNot sure why you're getting downvoted as this is a valid opinion to have. IMO my list is MacOS Sonoma, Windows 7, Gnome 30+. While I like the ideas behind KDE, XFCE and the like, they are terribly ugly by today's standards.
- cosmic_cheese 1y agoGNOME is pretty, but it’s not great when it comes to progressive disclosure – what you see is what you get; there’s no depth in which power user features can be found. macOS is nearly the opposite in this regard. I wouldn’t mind giving it a facelift but doing it GNOME style would mean it losing much of what has kept many users on it.
- skydhash 1y agoThe way for power using gnome is through extensions. But once you got used to the gnome philosophy, you find that you don’t have to fiddle with the UI that much.
- cosmic_cheese 1y agoNice in theory, but my experience has been that extension devs burn out from having to update their extensions so often to keep them from breaking. There’s also some things that extensions can’t fix.
- skydhash 1y agoDon’t use private API then. While the public API is not stable, there’s few changes there.
- cosmic_cheese 1y agoI don't know what falls under public and private API but across my GNOME installs over the years there are numerous extensions that've broken and been abandoned, which suggests that most of the things that people want to customize sit on the private side of the line.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoThe silly thing about Gnome extensions is that you have to configure them through a web browser rather than OS dialogs rendered with their own graphical toolkit.
- amlib 1y agoPlease don't ever again suggest Apple to hire the GNOME team. That would be a very sad day. Let them cook!
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoLetTim Cook!
- pxoe 1y agoThey already seem to vaguely echo gnome 3 look in macos. Huge titlebars with buttons, sidebar layouts in apps, transparent title bar, control center, etc., there's just a bunch of things that make you go 'huh'.
- samtheDamned 1y agoI remember the first time I got to use OSX and realized just how much of it looked and felt like a less intuitive gnome haha
- tmtvl 1y agoThe date/time format for the clock in the panel should always be %A %F %R. Anything else is unusable.
- prmph 1y agoWow, just goes to show how different people's perception can be. To me Gnome is ugly, I really tried to like it but just could not. Didn't work too well for me also, but no way I'd describe Gnome as nice looking. KDE has been the only DE that does not give me that subliminal feeling of being grainy and crummy in the way that many people have associated with Linux UI since the beginning.