BeggingJust absolutely BEGGING developers of Linux applications, desktop environments, whatever:Please recognise that "Liquid Glass" should be treated as a cautionary tale to be avoided

[researchfairy@scholar.social]

Begging

Just absolutely BEGGING developers of Linux applications, desktop environments, whatever:

Please recognise that "Liquid Glass" should be treated as a cautionary tale to be avoided

[researchfairy@scholar.social]

Do you want to give your users eye strain?

Because as someone with astigmatism, I'm just looking at screenshots of that bullshit and my head hurts already

[researchfairy@scholar.social]

Spicy UI take:

I want to be able to easily see the UI elements on my computer so that I can interact with them

Even if I have imperfect eyesight

So like

Opaque buttons and windows and scroll bars of a reasonable size with sharp edges so that my eyes can focus

I don't want the UI elements to disappear or blend in or for whatever is in the background to be visible through them

I need them to be easily visible because my eyes are shit

Thanks

[researchfairy@scholar.social]

Apple or designers or whatever: "All those things that make your computer usable? We made them subtle and disappearey and took away the borders and make them slide away unless you mouse over them. They get out of the way of the ~content~ you see."

Me: "I need my computer to work on it, I don't just dick around on the internet all day."

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@researchfairy my hope is not enough linux users have working GPU drivers for it to be viable, but i wouldn't put it past gnome to insist on burning all your CPU time on it with llvmpipe "as a fallback"

[jkaniarz@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva @researchfairy There was a release of Ubuntu about 15 years ago that had windows that jiggled while you dragged them on by default. The temptation is real.

[tiotasram@kolektiva.social]

@jkaniarz @aeva @researchfairy okay I never saw this on by default, but I did have a ton of fun with Compiz and it kinda blew me away how much more options there were than Windows. I could make virtual rain or have fire particles trail from my cursor. Definitely don't make these things defaults, but having them as options is pretty cool. I even wrote a little script to listen to a microphone and trigger the desktop rain effect when I whistled the Song of Storms from Ocarina of Time...

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tiotasram @jkaniarz @researchfairy that's amazing. compiz was great fun, but compiz was also something you had to go out of your way to install

[dotstdy@mastodon.social]

@aeva @researchfairy bring back desktop rain and desktop fire you cowards! i want my gpu to be running a fluid sim at all times

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@dotstdy @researchfairy I do sometimes miss having a little button on my computer that turns on fire when the mood calls for it...