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by slightwinder 460 days ago
I'm not a webdev, but still think it's shit. And I'm even old enough to know most of those Icons from the days in which they were considered modern. The whole interface is dated and with strange hacks. It's useful, but could be made better. But I think there are two different parts coming together here, namely UI and UX. The UI is old school and a bit ugly, while the UX is very basic and sometimes strange. And together they make a criticizable interface.

But actually, who cars? It's still doing its job well enough, while delivering a very powerful experience. On that level of ability, it's quite hard and demanding to build a good interface, and a dev who is so deep in CLI that he even builds his own terminal is unlikely to have the necessary competence in that area to make something better.
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nottorp 460 days ago
> The whole interface is dated

Oh, so you're advocating redesign for the sake of redesign?

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slightwinder 460 days ago
No, I'm saying it's justified to update the interface to reflect the state of todays interface-language.

Find the warts, optimize them, let it evolve and bring the workflows to the next level. The app is old and grown, one doesn't need to reinvent it, to make it better. And with its complex purpose, you would end up with something similar anyway.

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skydhash 460 days ago
> No, I'm saying it's justified to update the interface to reflect the state of todays interface-language.

Which one? GTK, QT, MacOS, the myriad in today's web?

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slightwinder 460 days ago
Interface-Language has little relation with the used GUI-Framework. And Calibre is already using Qt.
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