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(mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

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Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

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Post by ajmurmann »

yehaaa wrote: post #84

This is cool. I must say that I prefer the OS9 version of Zoom with the detached windows.

The crazy thing is that you can get at least two windows in Zoom. It's my favorite feature and the reason I prefer it over any of its competitors. However, it's for some reason hidden and handicapped. You need to turn it on and even then it will only work when you have two screens. IMO it should be enabled by default and work even if you only have a single screen. I use it every day, but usually have both windows on my main screen. It's especially invaluable when someone screenshares and you want to see people's faces at the same time.

Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

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Post by grishka »

rconti wrote: post #79
jen20 wrote: post #56

I definitely can’t help but wish a version of Slack that actually gave a passing concern for integration into a system UI exists. The “look we can do custom CSS everywhere and not look like ANY of our target platforms” garbage has the bane of my work day since it became popular.

I rarely used Windows, but I remember Trillian was one of the first applications I truly hated for exactly this reason.

It was always not uncommon for Windows apps to apply custom skins to their UIs.

Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

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Post by grishka »

Aeolun wrote: post #74
jen20 wrote: post #56

I definitely can’t help but wish a version of Slack that actually gave a passing concern for integration into a system UI exists. The “look we can do custom CSS everywhere and not look like ANY of our target platforms” garbage has the bane of my work day since it became popular.

At least Slack has an API where you could potentialy build one yourself. I wish that were true for Teams…

Everything has an API if you're brave enough lol

Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

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Post by wruza »

chrisseaton wrote: post #68
jjoonathan wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll find a lot of people, myself included, that point to the 10.6 era as peak OSX aesthetics. I personally prefer "steel and grass," some people prefer space, the specifics vary person-to-person but a lot of people agree on the trend. Skeuomorphism has an uncomfortably high skill floor, but it has an astronomical skill ceiling. With Apple, it shows. It really shows. In contrast, flat design has a skill ceiling so…

> a lot of people, myself included, that point to the 10.6 era as peak OSX aesthetics Just guessing... is that what you grew up with?

I also prefer 10.6, growing up with DOS 3.0 and then a list of OSes and apps too large to fit in the margin.

Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

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Post by Joeri »

floam wrote: post #5

Stimulates a bit of an impulse I had as a teenager and wanting to experience that on my PC, or get into BeOS or QNX, based just on witnessing screenshots and something deeply striking my fancy. Before I got into Linux (which was before I got a Mac in 2006), I used WindowBlinds and LiteStep to do exactly that, and more. I used to really care more about certain trappings of my experience, and I didn't have any actual w…

I used BeOS as a daily driver for a few years back in the day. It was a great OS, wonderfully smooth and powerful. But I was forced off of it because of the lack of applications. Applications make or break an OS. Microsoft had to learn this lesson several times already (windows phone, windows rt).

Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

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Post by e_proxus »

bbkane wrote: post #75
jen20 wrote: post #56

I definitely can’t help but wish a version of Slack that actually gave a passing concern for integration into a system UI exists. The “look we can do custom CSS everywhere and not look like ANY of our target platforms” garbage has the bane of my work day since it became popular.

You might like https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ . I haven't tried it, but it's a QT client for Slack/Discord

The problem is, it doesn’t look anything like the system UI either. Just because it is using a native toolkit doesn’t mean it automatically looks good or integrates well.

Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

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Post by waspight »

jonpurdy wrote: post #9
jonpalmisc wrote: post #2

Wow, this is incredible. Can’t imagine how much work this took. Seeing this makes me think about how many modern applications could learn a few things from the old Mac OS 8/9 Human Interface Guidelines. [0] [0] http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/doc...

It’s amazing to me how much more usable those UIs are. Not to mention how much more performant they’d be than modern Electron garbage. But forget about Mac OS 9, we don’t even have native OS X or Windows interfaces anymore. Doesn’t help that Apple dropped the ball on following their own UI guidelines.

I think Electron is quite amazing. It does not deserve this bad reputation that it for some reason has on HN.

Re: (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9

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Post by swiftcoder »

nine_k wrote: post #53
chrisseaton wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But is that just based on what you're used to rather than what is intuitively better?

Yes, it refers to well-recognizable imagery from outside the computer world.

Half the "well-recognisable" imagery seems to be of things that are long gone from the world. How many kids these days have ever seen a typewriter, a rotary-dial phone, or a point-and-shoot camera? The "save icon" has long overtaken the actual floppy disk. Many folks are even too young to know that the folder icon is modelled on physical file folders.
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