FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment

Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by Mikeb85 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:24PM (#28709425)

I didn't say it's shit. The underlying technology is probably pretty nice, the fact it's done in Go and multi-platform is nice.

But they need to take some styling inspiration from, well, 2021. Even their icons on their website look old. That's a deal breaker for many. Why would you choose this over say, Flutter, when Flutter is also cross-platform and there's an obvious way to style Flutter apps? There's examples of good-looking Flutter apps...

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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by andydotxyz on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:41PM (#28711675)

But the website is not the toolkit. Yes the marketing needs work, but I would not judge the style of a toolkit based on it's homepage. The icons and design are based on Material Design which is really quite modern.

Why choose Fyne over Flutter? Mostly because it offers clear, easy to understand APIs instead of a glorified web UI. You pick Test Driven Development or Refresh Driven Design - people generally prefer one or the other ;)

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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by mixmastamyk on Friday October 01, 2021 @01:09PM (#28721017)

It’s all gone downhill since Windows 2000, NeXt, Amiga.

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