GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme

Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by userbinator on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:19PM (#17243677)

It was easy to work out what to click and what doesn’t do anything.

Buttons that don't look like buttons but more like static text are a "modern" and irritating trend, but a while ago I had to use a web application which somehow managed to show all 4 combinations of "button-ness": it had buttons which looked like buttons, buttons which didn't look like buttons but static text, static text which looked like static text, and most WTF-inducing, static text which looked like buttons.

It really boggles the mind to wonder who/what decided on that, since making non-clickable text look like buttons --- complete with text that was also suitably ambiguous, e.g. "Remove" --- is something that I've never seen a rationale for.

The irony is, while it could be argued that you can mouse over controls in a web app to see whether they're clickable, this flat UI trend came from touchscreen mobile devices where "mouse over" just isn't a thing!

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by noir_lord on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:06PM (#17242493)

Yep, The last version of windows I used heavily was Win2k and for me that was the peak of their UI for people like us.

I get the rationale behind much of what followed by every time I have to use Windows 7 I wonder what the hell they where thinking, I don't dislike Win10 (from a UI perspective) quite as much.

Cinnamon/GTK (Mint-X-Sand) is still much clearer for me than Win10 though.

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by edejong on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:22PM (#17242594)

Yes, you would expect the armies of UX experts to be able to figure out basic consistency and discovery of components. Seems all the good UI research (using actual user experience testing) in the late 20th century has been largely forgotten.

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by bonyt on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:34PM (#17243127)

http://prior.sigchi.org/chi96/proceedings/desbrief/Sullivan/... is a fun read. At the time, the very concept of a UI on a computer was itself alien to many of Microsoft's target users - they did a lot of user testing to come up with what ended up in Windows 95.

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by spilk on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:57PM (#17243556)

I miss the days of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines and when Apple actually more-or-less conformed to them.

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by satysin on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:06PM (#17242492)

Agreed. Maybe I am just showing my age but I love the classic design. It was clean and crisp while still looking nice. Didn't waste space with massive controls, etc. I was never a fan of the Vista/7 looks. I am not super keen on the looks in Windows 10 but they are an improvement imho.

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by whatever_dude on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:48PM (#17242773)

I cannot wait for GitHub 2000. Best GitHub ever.

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by RachelF on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:14PM (#17243648)

Split GitHub into "Github Home" and "Github Enterprise" but not allow you to use both at the same time

Github for Business only supported on Windows 10 Enterprise.

GitHub Home will only work on the Edge browser.

Only allow Office365 subscribers to reset their GitHub passwords, or sometimes only outlook.com emails or occasionally only live.com.

Remove the code check-in/out feature but add new options to post photos to your project timeline

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by aldanor on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @07:40PM (#17243159)

GitHub 365 Service Pack 1.

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by nashashmi on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:20PM (#17243679)

I still use the windows 98 classic theme on a windows 7 machine. much faster on the cpu. much condensed too.

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by merb on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:05PM (#17243289)

and you know where to find a particular setting. now it can be in the new or in the old version or in both....

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Re:GitHub XP – GitHub Windows XP Theme by setquk on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:24AM (#17244768)

Ugh yes. That does my head in.

Also try driving the new stuff with a keyboard.

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