You mean a UI in which all the clickable elements are obvious, features are discoverable, it’s fairly obvious what you’re interacting with, and keyboard navigation works well? I didn’t know big tech companies could still do this either.
In my opinion, this looks far better and more usable than a lot of new UIs nowadays.
I’d say appearance != usability, and while this might look a bit dated, it probably behaves a lot more like a desktop application than most Electron apps out there.
To me it looks very much like mRemoteNG (https://mremoteng.org/). Is this just because the same WinForms libraries were used or is there some meat to this?
Nowadays I'm happy if it even bothers to register all keystrokes. Somehow this has become more difficult now that CPUs are many times faster and don't need to queue all keystrokes to ensure they are taken care of eventually.
The issue with Electron is that devs tries to mimic the browsers UI in a desktop environment. Our desktop OS need to have a desktop UI instead of the mobile webpage with Material/Flat UI design (no visual box line, no separators, no multi-windows, pushing the setting menu as a sidebar, etc). It should be treated as a desktop app with the benefits of desktop, not a mobile app which is the issue.
It's not. This is a regular .NET Windows Forms app and the docking/tabbing stuff is DockPanelSuite, I'd recognize it a mile away. This is confirmed by poking around in their .csproj.