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FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment

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Re: FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment

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Points for being a cross-platform Go-based UI toolkit. But as a desktop environment, the design is far behind Apple, Gnome-shell, MS, even KDE.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

AFAIK, fyne is primarily a one man operation; I'm sure andrew would appreciate the help

Re: FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

More like there's obviously no designers on the team. There's plenty of tech out there to build on. Ideas to build on. No Web toolkit is going to look like a website from 20 years ago... This is dead in the water unless they can show something that looks like it was made in 2021.

"It's shit" is not constructive feedback. As the parent commenter said, this is a relatively UI toolkit, and this desktop environment implementation is even younger. It takes time and effort to tweak things and there's no need to be hostile to new efforts. Especially when you consider that Qt, Windows, GNOME etc all have had years and years to tweak their design, and have also been redesigned.

The feedback is, 'do some proper UI design, because it really, really needs it'. That's constructive, as I read it, and very relevant.

Re: FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment

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post #17
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More like there's obviously no designers on the team. There's plenty of tech out there to build on. Ideas to build on. No Web toolkit is going to look like a website from 20 years ago... This is dead in the water unless they can show something that looks like it was made in 2021.

"It's shit" is not constructive feedback. As the parent commenter said, this is a relatively UI toolkit, and this desktop environment implementation is even younger. It takes time and effort to tweak things and there's no need to be hostile to new efforts. Especially when you consider that Qt, Windows, GNOME etc all have had years and years to tweak their design, and have also been redesigned.

I didn't say it's shit. The underlying technology is probably pretty nice, the fact it's done in Go and multi-platform is nice.

But they need to take some styling inspiration from, well, 2021. Even their icons on their website look old. That's a deal breaker for many. Why would you choose this over say, Flutter, when Flutter is also cross-platform and there's an obvious way to style Flutter apps? There's examples of good-looking Flutter apps...

Re: FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment

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I would pay good money if someone figured out a way to get this thing to run on top of windows, while allowing me to run all my Windows programs anyway.

I assume this just isn't possible, but it would be so great. I ultimately love windows, but I definitely do miss the customization options Linux gives you.

Re: FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment

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Weird this young project isn't as polished huge, mature and widely used projects.

More like there's obviously no designers on the team. There's plenty of tech out there to build on. Ideas to build on. No Web toolkit is going to look like a website from 20 years ago... This is dead in the water unless they can show something that looks like it was made in 2021.

> More like there's obviously no designers on the team.

Given what we've seen from modern "designers", I'm actually going to count that as a positive.

Re: FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop environment

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post #10
post #8

Points for being a cross-platform Go-based UI toolkit. But as a desktop environment, the design is far behind Apple, Gnome-shell, MS, even KDE.

Weird this young project isn't as polished huge, mature and widely used projects.

That's fine, but the top-most headline on the page says:

YOUR BEAUTIFUL NEW OPEN SOURCE DESKTOP

You're just doing yourself a disservice if you market yourself like that and can't deliver.

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