alt Hacker NewsSaw a fascinating talk on gui and ui development today, lamenting the stagnation at M$ and apple when it comes to desktop computing (including browsing).
" there simply is nothing for open source to copy but ux-decline" and that sentence rings like a bell of all the problems.
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GeoAtreides • last Saturday at 9:56 AM
was it this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ
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rsync • last Saturday at 7:59 PM
"... there simply is nothing for open source to copy but ux-decline ..."
I beg to differ. Tiling window managers like ion, ratpoison, dwm, et. al, and the simple and elegant tooling that accompany them are a wonderful example of UI innovation.
UI/UX designers who copy, and iterate on, infantile eye candy have only themselves to blame.
Can you ring the same bell at the GTK and GNOME folks? The GTK4 thing with hamburger menus that replace everything is just a mess. I stumbled on nemo the other day while looking for nautilus. That… was a breath of fresh air: compact UI, menus, features, etc.
It’s painful seeing FOSS making some of the same mistakes as corporations