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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by logbiscuitswave on Saturday April 17, 2021 @11:21PM (#26849563)
The lack of chrome is such a frustrating design trend. In Windows 10 in particular I find it so difficult to find the .. well, windows because everything just kind of blends together. There’s something to be said about the workaday utility of how things used to be. They weren’t necessarily beautiful in a conventional sense but they were so much more intuitive.
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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by userbinator on Sunday April 18, 2021 @12:18AM (#26849766)
https://doctoratlantis.medium.com/how-to-restore-the-borders...

https://www.robinhobo.com/how-to-fix-the-borderless-window-p...

...and then of course you have the dummies like this who probably caused these idiotic trends:

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-rid-of...

The real problem is the lack of configurability. You could change the window border width to anywhere from invisible to some insanely huge number on the older versions of Windows, and everyone would be happy. Now you're forced to use whatever some stupid "designer"'s idea is.

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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by logbiscuitswave on Sunday April 18, 2021 @12:30AM (#26849829)
The funny thing is back in Windows 7 and earlier I would tweak my theme to have the thinnest borders possible yet I still didn’t have the whole “where is my window” issue. All those customization options went away starting with Windows 8 when some UI designers decided they knew better than me how my windows should look.

Thanks for those links - I’ll play around with those options to see if I can restore some sanity to my desktop.

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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by qwertox on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:02AM (#26851736)
It turns the "just shoving windows around and resizing them" from something normal into an act which only a surgeon could feel comfortable with. The mouse is not a scalpel, it's a tool, and if I need to hit a 1px wide border edge (or even worse the corner) in order to resize a window, then it's a terribly bad UI.

I loved SGI IRIX's brutally bold borders, but those of Windows 7 are still just as good.

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Re:Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window ... by protomyth on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:53AM (#26851985)
I still wish Windows had a Windows 2000 UI mode. I think the technicolor XP is where Windows UI designers decided usability isn't the main criteria.
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