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How did we get into a world where 20 years later with Windows 10 you can't even set a dark title bar color because Windows will say "that color is not supported". There's a cut off when picking a custom color where if you go below a certain shade of darkness it denies you.
I'm happy I don't do that anymore.
> In the old days of Windows 3.1, it was common to walk into an office and see each person’s desktop colors, fonts and wallpapers tuned to their personalities, just like their physical desk, with one’s family portrait or plants. Author (and many commenters here) take as a given that this is a good thing, but I'm not so sure. Starting with the physical desk metaphor - you probably have trinkets and photos and whatnot,…
>you're almost certainly better off using the consensus interface; and if it has problems, contributing the fixes for those problems back to everyone This is usually impossible, because UI designers' goals are not your goals. Designers optimize for distinctiveness ("branding") and good first impressions from inexperienced users. This results in anti-features like low contrast text, excessive whitespace, and mandatory…
I'm using one of those few remaining systems that you mentioned. But even on OS X I don't find it "impossible" to use the standard interface.
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I’m curious - have you experimented with the range of accessibility options in Mac OS? Are there particular ones that are missing when it comes to dyslexia?
I don't run MacOS on any of the PCs I own, so no. Neither do I have any of the disabilities mentioned. I just feel that being able to change colors and fonts is a significantly broader and more simple solution than bespoke accessibility features tuned for specific disabilities.
So what I'm understanding is you're saying an OS that is used by a LOT of people, is inaccessible, but you neither have any of the disabilities nor the OS you're complaining about to back this claim up?
Because macOS has tons of accessibility options including font sizes, etc.
Unpopular opinion: optimising for "branding" is what killed theming. Everyone wants to have their own custom colour theme, brand-associated font or button style, which clashes with uniformity of system controls. If everyone renders buttons in a custom way, they bypass the native, theming-capable, accessible-by-default system controls. As long as product managers are happy, it doesn't matter that users aren't.
I’ve also noticed that surprisingly many of my friends have changed their Gmail theme.
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I don't run MacOS on any of the PCs I own, so no. Neither do I have any of the disabilities mentioned. I just feel that being able to change colors and fonts is a significantly broader and more simple solution than bespoke accessibility features tuned for specific disabilities.
> I don't run MacOS on any of the PCs I own, so no. Neither do I have any of the disabilities mentioned. So what I'm understanding is you're saying an OS that is used by a LOT of people, is inaccessible, but you neither have any of the disabilities nor the OS you're complaining about to back this claim up? Because macOS has tons of accessibility options including font sizes, etc.
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> I don't run MacOS on any of the PCs I own, so no. Neither do I have any of the disabilities mentioned. So what I'm understanding is you're saying an OS that is used by a LOT of people, is inaccessible, but you neither have any of the disabilities nor the OS you're complaining about to back this claim up? Because macOS has tons of accessibility options including font sizes, etc.
I never claimed MacOS was inaccessible. I don't even use MacOS, and haven't since about 10.1. I don't believe I've made any claims about MacOS at all, actually.
You're ranting and raving for absolute zero reason at all. You have no facts to back up your claims nor any actual experience.
This seems to fly directly against recently articles about the massive uptick in iOS customisation after 14 launched. The #ios14homescreen hashtag on Twitter seems extremely popular: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ios14homescreen
I want Linux-like anarchy^H^H^Hthemability on Windows and macOS. I'm not keen on tweaking the appearance of every little button, but I want to go 'theme-shopping' from time to time and change the appearance of my desktop. Just to make it look a bit different now and then. It's interesting that the most slick and stylish desktops are now on Linux (of course there's 99% trash, but the remaining 1% are a lot more aesthe…
> of course there's 99% trash I'm offended. 99% of the number of desktop environments, or the installation, or the stylized installations? As with everything artistic, the last is a matter of taste, and the more opinionated a visual design is, the more you are likely to disagree with it. For the rest, please give names.. I've seen magnificients {i3, sway, KDE, GNOME, XFCE, cinnamon, etc}. ricing is a popular sport.