Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop by someonebaggy on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:54PM (#49833468)

This is the consistently inconsistent look and feel off GNOME 3, not just one application

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Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop by bigyabai on Thursday September 24, 2026 @04:04PM (#49836107)

I... disagree. GNOME Builder is GTK4 and Libadwaita, with lots of custom widgets to build out the "IDE-lite" experience.

It looks like this because it's also how XCode and Visual Studio looks. I don't like it, I don't use Builder, but the design isn't foreign.

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Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop by preg_match on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:39PM (#49838756)

Visual studio does not look like this, because it uses text instead of icons. Which both uses less space, and is much easier to parse.

The gnome style client side decorations versus traditional menu bars is just bad. It works okay if your application has like… two buttons. Which, to be fair, is many gnome apps because they’re so feature-anemic. But once you have many functions, it becomes a mess that wastes huge amount of screen space.

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Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop by someonebaggy on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:04PM (#49838950)

Xcode is also confusing and should not be copied. Have they really mangled VS that badly it's like xcode?

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