Re:If OpenSSL were a GUI
by adrian_b on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:22AM
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I wonder what versions of those GUI applications that you like have you used.
I was very content with the GUI of Word, Excel or PowerPoint of 20 years ago.
On the other hand I despise the recent GUI of MS Office, where many options are not grouped in a way that I would consider rational and it is frequently very difficult to discover where some options are hidden.
The same with Internet browsers. I was very content with the GUI of Netscape Navigator, then Mozilla.
Firefox was worse than Mozilla since the beginning and it became worse and worse, with various options becoming more and more hidden or disappearing completely. Opera had retained for a longer time than other browsers a traditional, more customizable GUI, but then it has also succumbed to the modern fashion of dumbing down the GUIs.
When the tabbed windows were introduced in the Internet browsers, that was a great improvement. However, with this exception, in my opinion the browser GUIs have become worse, not better, than the old GUIs, because I have lost control over many features that I could configure in the past, while other surviving options have become increasingly difficult to discover.
So if we refer to their current versions, most of your examples are for me exactly the examples of the worst modern GUIs.
I was very content with the GUI of Word, Excel or PowerPoint of 20 years ago.
On the other hand I despise the recent GUI of MS Office, where many options are not grouped in a way that I would consider rational and it is frequently very difficult to discover where some options are hidden.
The same with Internet browsers. I was very content with the GUI of Netscape Navigator, then Mozilla.
Firefox was worse than Mozilla since the beginning and it became worse and worse, with various options becoming more and more hidden or disappearing completely. Opera had retained for a longer time than other browsers a traditional, more customizable GUI, but then it has also succumbed to the modern fashion of dumbing down the GUIs.
When the tabbed windows were introduced in the Internet browsers, that was a great improvement. However, with this exception, in my opinion the browser GUIs have become worse, not better, than the old GUIs, because I have lost control over many features that I could configure in the past, while other surviving options have become increasingly difficult to discover.
So if we refer to their current versions, most of your examples are for me exactly the examples of the worst modern GUIs.