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by alphazard 260 days ago
It strikes me as a just a question of taste. No one has to do any significant extra work. Someone just has to recognize e.g. why white space matters, or wasted space, or contrast matters, and then make the necessary changes to the defaults.

It's not like we are arguing about the subjectivity of favorite colors. The basics that macOS, r/unixporn and even Windows get right and GNOME gets wrong are better understood as facts about the human visual system, and how the typical human performs when confronted with the interface.
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bigyabai 260 days ago
Iunno, I write GTK4 apps and don't have any real gripes with the toolkit. My biggest issue is the color scheme, besides that I think the Libadwaita look is much easier-on-the-eyes than post-Big Sur macOS. Certainly makes a better use of screen real estate.
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wredcoll 260 days ago
> Someone just has to recognize e.g. why white space matters, or wasted space, or contrast matters, and then make the necessary changes to the defaults.

I mean, this is work, but the issue is getting every single program to do it and then keeping it "correct" for the next 10 years as other people try to change.

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