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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by jlg23 on Monday April 09, 2018 @11:53AM (#16794069)
Because:

* in open source software projects, professional designers are rare.

* functionality or documentation might have been higher priorities

* it would be unfair to deprive you of the opportunity to contribute a better design to this open source projet

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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by zaroth on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:45PM (#16795182)
The last bullet should come with a warning to put your drink down first.
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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by stefkors on Monday April 09, 2018 @03:58PM (#16796425)
What is the best way for designers to help with opensource projects? These projects are often very developer oriented.
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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by domoritz on Monday April 09, 2018 @06:40PM (#16797601)
Nicely ask in the bug tracker about how a designer can help. Maybe start with a mock of what you want to change. I'm sure most open source developers will put in extra effort to help you because they value contributions from designers.
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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by pjmlp on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:31PM (#16796712)
Not bash their contributions like it has happened on GNOME and KDE.
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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by freedomben on Monday April 09, 2018 @06:40PM (#16797598)
The bashing is truly amazing. Not only does it lack constructiveness (in most cases), but Gnome (I speak of Gnome here not to the exclusion of KDE. I just happen to be a Gnome user) is beautiful, and has been for years.

Thank you Gnome team, including designers, that created such a beautiful desktop experience for me.

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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by koffiezet on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:11AM (#16800029)
Design is more than beauty. Design is functionality, how you use stuff. As long as I rather jump into a terminal than navigate through the UI, that's a fail in my book, and very few DE's on Linux pass this test.
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