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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:20:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote at 19:43 this Saturday (GMT):
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 11/06/2025 13:12, Borax Man wrote:
>>> None of this fuzzy flat design with muted pastels in a sea of low 
>>> constrast grey featureless tiles for me.
>> 
>> Amen to that.
>> 
>> I am sick of 'modern' web site  fill-in boxes in the lightest of gray 
>> on a white background placed in arbitrary locations - probably off 
>> screen at any level of zoom that allows you to read the text.
>
> You can blame Jony Ive for that.  He pushed the flat, colorless, light 
> grey on bright white design for the iphones, and of course most 
> 'designers' are also Apple Fanboi's at the same time, so they "must 
> copy apple" in the look they create everywhere else.
>
> Some have gone so far that the "boxes" have no color or borders at all, 
> and the only way to discover there is in fact a form field on screen at 
> that spot is to click the area with the mouse and see if the keyboard 
> insertion cursor appears in the whitespace.


it is getting really annoying how many times people copy Apple to look
"modern". At the very least, we might get a semi-revival of Aero Glass
now.
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