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Re: Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination

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Post by bigfatkitten » Sun, Sep 15, 2024, 9:02 PM UTC

manmal wrote: post #59

As someone totally out of the loop, what’s the status of font rendering in Gnome? The screenshots don’t look any better than 20 years ago, a jarring difference to what I‘m used to from macOS.

It's distribution dependent.

It's been a solved problem for years, but some of the better rendering methods in FreeType are/were patent encumbered, and so it comes down to what each distro's lawyers are comfortable with.

Gnome's out of the box font choices don't help either. Cantarell renders terribly on anything but high DPI displays.

Re: Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination

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Post by sunny_sigara » Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 10:38 AM UTC

greatgib wrote: post #266

comex wrote: post #9

Decent critique, but it mixes together two things: the design language, and UI papercuts showing a lack of attention to detail. Consider the current macOS Finder: https://a.qoid.us/20240907-finder.png Finder's design is extremely similar to GNOME Files! And so the inherent downsides of the design language are present in Finder too, such as it being harder to drag windows around or click to activate windows. But macOS…

In my opinion, OS X Finder is the most defective file browser of them all. It always makes me laugh when some people believe the marketing of Apple saying that their OS is the most ergonomic when it is totally not the case. Things like creating a new folder is a nightmare, if you are in the kind of a tree view and try to create a folder or paste a file, it will end up in the top parent folder. When you sort by recent…

Finder is most advanced and most extensible. I make it work like Nautilus or Dolphin or Thunar. It’s super extensible. What Finder can do, Nautilus combined with Nemo, Thunar and Dolphin can’t do.

Re: Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination

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Post by fracus » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 6:59 PM UTC

worble wrote: post #61

fracus wrote: post #52

One thing I can't stand with Ubuntu is the panel position at the top. 90% of users will be browsing the web. If I'm on reddit for example, I will literally have at minimum 3 browser bars (tabs, toolbar, reddit enhancement suite) but also the panel. Consider we read top to bottom, the panel shouldn't be at top since it is almost never being used or read. It should default to the bottom but at the very least you should…

As consider that because monitors are typically 16:9 there is so much extra horizontal space compared to vertical. Personally on KDE I have my app panel on the right then hide browser tabs with some css and have Tree Style Tabs on the right as well. It frees up so much of the limited vertical space, it's refreshing.

I would like it on the sides but the clock never looks right in that config IMO.