HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a modern architecture

Re:HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a mode... by pndy on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:05PM (#34524173)

Hot take: the current mobile flatness we see all around mostly serves dark patterns schemes and it's anti-user by default. It's easier to hide options within an interface that has no clearly distinction between link and the button, the interactive object and just the decoration. That helps trick users to pick something they didn't want or make them keep the defaults that works against them.

And by the way, may I suggest you try to search on the Internet what GNOME desktop environment developers did to theming with their libadwaita and flat Adwaita design. For a start: https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming...

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Re:HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a mode... by mech422 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:18PM (#34524942)

Thats another pet peeve of mine - web pages where every pixel is some sort of link/hotspot. Like I just wanted to activate the window, or grab some whitespace and scroll. Not switch tabs, not maximize the window and definitely not navigate away to some ad or whatnot.

Also, am I the only one sketched out by the javascript ads with the internal 'x' close buttons? Its obviously part of the ad, and not the program chrome/controls. For all I know, it's just a redirect to pwnme.com :-P

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Re:HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a mode... by pndy on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:07PM (#34525445)

> web pages where every pixel is some sort of link/hotspot

Or while trying to copy a link or text on page - you gotta grab it perfectly otherwise everything else gets selected. So you're maneuvering like under microscope at the very beginning or end of the text.

Similar thing I'm experiencing on Xfce: some themes use this very slim window borders which are almost impossible to grab to resize. And since there's no grab to resize widget in the bottom right corner (it used to be once a standard, I'm pretty sure), upper right corner near the close button is the way.

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Re:HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a mode... by mech422 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:17PM (#34526944)

Sometimes its easier to select stuff from the end to beginning... I thought it was my imagination, but then a browser developer wrote about it in their blog or something.

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Re:HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a mode... by mech422 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:21PM (#34524972)

I was always camp KDE - but that libadwaita thing sounds horrible... Maybe Rasterman is due for a comeback - enlightenment desktop looks pretty nice!

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Re:HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a mode... by creatable on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @07:35PM (#34526278)

libadwaita disallowing themes is not a user-hostile decision (rather an accessibility one), nor are themes impossible. https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-a...

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