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Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help

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Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help

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Post by dabockster »

emilsedgh wrote: post #7

KDE. Seriously. KDE has a good UI team but the number of projects and applications is huge and all the designers are volunteers. There's Plasma Desktop and Plasma Mobile and a ton of applications. And the visibility that your work will get by helping out there is more than most projects.

Compared with other OSS, the KDE designs are amazing. But still, that's not saying a lot when compared with more professional projects that gain more press.

Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help

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Post by jordigh »

Animats wrote: post #8

- Git's default graphical user interface, "git gui". It's awful. There's no sense of what's important and what's safe. It's just the git command line hammered into a Tk-type interface.

Making alternative git interfaces is its own cottage industry. Magit is my favourite, for those rare instances in which I have to use git (almost never now).

Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help

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Post by ythn »

SammyWakan wrote: post #13

The KeePass project ( https://keepass.info/ ) would be a good one to contribute to. Their website and the actual app itself could use some modernization.

This one is possible, but might be difficult. It's currently a single developer who approves all code additions with no version control to sync things up.

i.e. You have to manually maintain your own fork of the codebase

Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help

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Post by fairpx »

O1111OOO wrote: post #16

It's a shame that the offer comes now because it's still too early... but the Purism Librem 5 phone[0]. It's just getting off the ground and this is an effort that really needs to succeed (more broadly). [0] https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

We actually do this on an almost monthly basis, so who knows :) We would LOVE to work on this particular project. Is there anyone you know we can contact specifically for a more tight collaboration? Find my email in my bio

Re: Tell HN: We’re looking for OSS projects that need UI Design help

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Post by ZenoArrow »

O1111OOO wrote: post #16

It's a shame that the offer comes now because it's still too early... but the Purism Librem 5 phone[0]. It's just getting off the ground and this is an effort that really needs to succeed (more broadly). [0] https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

Good suggestion, and I wouldn't say it comes too early, making the default PureOS apps mobile-friendly is work that can start now:

https://pureos.net/

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