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> I'm not sure who thought "everything should be flat and white" was a good idea. It's just the old Windows 2.0 look.

• dspillett 6mo ago
  Windows 2 had plainly visible borders, with decent contrast depending on your colour settings, so you could see what ended where.
  • hulitu 6mo ago
    The UX designers copied the look, minus the colors, and without functionality. Whoever thinks, that an 1px border for a resizable element on a 4k display is ok, is insane.
    • doubled112 6mo ago
      The hotkey to allow move and resize from anywhere in a window is my favourite *nix window manager convention. Windows finally implemented it via PowerToys: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/grab-and-move https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/grab-and...
      • dspillett 6mo ago
        I must have missed that being added. I'll have to play next time I'm in front of one of my windows machines.
    • dspillett 6mo ago
      Even back when we had much fewer pixels on most displays, people knew 1px drag targets were a bad idea. Some UIs dos have single pixel borders, but tended to have extra decorations at the corners so there was something larger to interact with there, and/or implemented something like a control key making any point in the window a size/move target.