[FourOnTheFloor]

Shitfest indeed.

"back when you could configure stuff and have it not break early the following week"

Exactly, but this was true on every GUI EXCEPT the vaunted Mac. For what, two decades, you could set up your own system-wide color scheme under Windows, which would be inherited by all competent apps. I set up a nice, non-inverse (today's trendy "dark") scheme in 1991 and used it into the 2000s. Then, just before everyone finally realized that staring at black text on a glaring white screen all day sucks... Microsoft removed the scheme editor from Windows entirely.

The Windows shitshow has only gotten more rank from there. Not knowledgable enough to weigh in on Linux and Unix GUIs.

[exe34]

Gnome is basically "we made it, and we really want to feel like we've been creative, and you can't say anything against it."

Granted, I get it for free, but my attention and effort to fight it isn't free, so I only use it when I'm being paid to do so, just like windows.

In my own systems, I've just removed the desktop, I use xmonad, xterm, Emacs and chrome. That covers 95% of what I need.

[tomthehero]

on the gnome attitude

[zilti]

KDE Plasma is extremely configurable on that end, and lets you define color schemes, window decorations, everything.

[wlesieutre]

You could pick a color scheme on Mac too, as long as it was blue or gray

[FourOnTheFloor]

Ha, true.

They actually did have a way to invert the whole UI... but it also inverted photo images on the screen. poundAppleAttentionToDetail