GNOME June 2024: C'mon you can do better
New GNOME dialog on the right:
Apple's dialog:
They say GNOME isn't a copy of macOS but with time it has been getting really close. I don't think this is a bad thing however they should just admit it and then put some real effort into cloning macOS instead of the crap they're making right now.
Here's the thing: Apple's design you'll find that they carefully included an extra margin between the "Don't Save" and "Cancel" buttons. This avoid accidental clicks on the wrong button so that people don't lose their work when they just want to click "Cancel".
So much for the GNOME, vision and their expert usability team :P
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I get it that you hate this design and its obvious strong inspiration by Apple but accusing GNOME team in being lazy is too much. They created the most popular and one of the most stable DEs on Linux and their own workflow that's similar to Apple's but still is unique. Also when I saw that new design, I was amazed. To me it looks really great. It's going to be a good update with accent color support (I won't fight about it ok?) for sure. It's just a matter of preference. Both designs are good enough technically imo.
I don't hate it, it looks better than what was there before, no doubts there, but at the same time they could've just made it better.
All the literature on action buttons with dangerous effects tells you to add margins, accents and shades. Any design undergraduate should be aware of this, however the GNOME team totally missed it.
It's funny that you mention that because...
I'm totally okay with "being inspired" (cloning) macOS, it should be viewed as good thing because Apple does spend a lot in UX research however lets make thing properly.
How? Improving something like this is hard. Do you have any proposals?
I'm afraid to tell you that in 2024 nobody cares about that. "Shape following feeling" in MD is the best example I can think of. Now aesthetics is preferred to make people buy (or use for free in this case) the product. People are not tech savvy. They want good looks and GNOME nailed it imo. It's stunning. They even got me but I do care about aesthetics unfortunately. I'm a spoilt mass consumer. Eject me if you will.
Accent color taboo. Let's not talk about accent color.
I've submitted a fair share of UX in-depth analysis with examples and links to literature on the GNOME team blog and they tend to ignore / comment dismissingly and then remove my comments after a few weeks.
Ahahaha
Judging from your post and replies, you look very aggressive, rude and demanding so no wonder the devs deleted your comments.
To be fair, he could also just be fed up after a long time being ignored for what he thinks is quite an important design decision.
May be but some of this user's post history is a bit questionable.
In-depth analysis ≠ random ramblings on lemmy.
Citation very much needed
Hardly, but I'm guessing you're thinking of reliability instead. Not really surprising when it's so stripped down that vanilla GNOME is pretty much unusable. When you extend it, in order to get a proper DE, that goes right out the window.
That fact makes it especially funny that vanilla GNOME is by far the fattest DE around. How it manages to use up more resources than KDE is beyond me.
Ubuntu, RHEL and Fedora use it as the default and they are very big distros. Idk if it's enough but that's what I know.
Idk. KDE was unstable for me and it always has bugs after major releases. They should test things better.
Personal opinion.
Deepin.
You have a point here. Qt is better in terms of efficiency afaik and performance is extremely important for an OS component. But hey at least it's getting better over time.
I mean, that's pretty irrelevant. If you were for example at least comparing the downloads of fedora Vs spins, that would be a beginning of something.
In case it wasn't obvious: stability is not reliability
So does GNOME, especially when you have a lot of extensions
KDE is pretty crap in both regards
Is that why every distro comes with vanilla GNOME? Oh wait...
Meanwhile over the years KDE got lighter than GNOME while constantly piling on features.
This is turning into a meaningless argument now. I don't want to continue.
It can happen when you have to develop all your technology on your own instead of relying on the work of a hundred-million dollar company that does the heavy lifting for you.