Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment

Post by rectang » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 7:44 PM UTC

CoastalCoder wrote: post #10

NotVerstappen wrote: post #7

I think I would've tried Pop!_OS by now if not for the name - I know it is totally irrational, but having a ! in there really pisses me off.

It's not just you. I have trouble going near CockroachDB because of its name. It's absolutely unjustifiable from an engineering perspective, but the effect (for me, at least) is real.

Post by bee_rider » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 7:44 PM UTC

Animats wrote: post #4

chungy wrote: post #3

"There’s no visible distinction between the window title bar and the body of the window." Strikes me as a bit amusing, as this was the case also in early versions of GNOME 3. I believe it was abandoned because non-GNOME apps (or more specifically, ones that didn't follow the GNOME HIG) had a visible distinction and greater consistency was desired. Changing GNOME's own look was the way to do so.

Or between what's clickable and what isn't. (New dark pattern: popups which have an X box to dismiss them being harder to dismiss. First, the box around the X disappeared. Then, the X moves to different places in the box. (Bing does this for their house ads.) Then, the active portion of the X shrinks to make it harder to hit.)

Post by brink » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 7:46 PM UTC

anthk wrote: post #8

I don't like Rust, but between Gnome's JS abortion lagfest and Rust, please, use the second.

Post by nonameiguess » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 7:46 PM UTC

CoastalCoder wrote: post #10

NotVerstappen wrote: post #7

I think I would've tried Pop!_OS by now if not for the name - I know it is totally irrational, but having a ! in there really pisses me off.

It's not just you. I have trouble going near CockroachDB because of its name. It's absolutely unjustifiable from an engineering perspective, but the effect (for me, at least) is real.

Post by shmerl » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 7:46 PM UTC