Re:KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07
by grishka on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:44AM
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- The paddings are all seemingly arbitrary.
- The proportions are inconsistent.
- There are way too many icons; I generally dislike this Linux GUI convention that every button must have an icon on the left. These icons add no information, they just make the whole thing look more busy.
- Sometimes there are shadows, but sometimes there aren't. You have to pick one or the other. And if you pick the other, you'd want borders because there needs to be a visual hierarchy either way.
- Sharp corners and small shadows don't work well together.
I'm not a designer, I'm a developer, but I've seen way too many people make these same mistakes when designing UIs.
Gnome does look more polished, and it's maybe nice to use with a touchscreen, but they're being weird by optimizing everything for touchscreens yet positioning it as a laptop/desktop DE.
- The proportions are inconsistent.
- There are way too many icons; I generally dislike this Linux GUI convention that every button must have an icon on the left. These icons add no information, they just make the whole thing look more busy.
- Sometimes there are shadows, but sometimes there aren't. You have to pick one or the other. And if you pick the other, you'd want borders because there needs to be a visual hierarchy either way.
- Sharp corners and small shadows don't work well together.
I'm not a designer, I'm a developer, but I've seen way too many people make these same mistakes when designing UIs.
Gnome does look more polished, and it's maybe nice to use with a touchscreen, but they're being weird by optimizing everything for touchscreens yet positioning it as a laptop/desktop DE.