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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by ghusto on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @12:46PM (#36683633)
As someone's already pointed out; yes they are. That's not the point though. The point is that modern GUI design is godawful, all because when Apple does something, everybody follows unthinkingly.

Apple is the pied pier, leading all the rats off a cliff (unified and locked-down single device, it's coming), and we're the rats who follow blindly. Nobody questions the design decisions, they presume it's good because Apple did it.

It's good, but not for them.

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by llm_nerd on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:07PM (#36683939)
>As someone's already pointed out; yes they are.

No they aren't. CSS pixels are completely irrelevant to this discussion, not to mention it is fundamentally misunderstanding what they are.

>all because when Apple does something

I have no idea why Apple is catching strays in a conversation discussing non-Apple software, for a problem not seen in Apple software.

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by ghusto on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @03:05AM (#36691285)
> I have no idea why Apple is catching strays in a conversation discussing non-Apple software, for a problem not seen in Apple software

I don't think they're strays or unwarranted. Apple makes icons flat, every else makes icons flat. Apple adds white-space around icons, everyone else does.

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