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by doubled112 42 days ago
> couldn't tell at first glance where one started and the other ended

This was even worse in an RDP session. No drop shadows. I'm not sure who thought "everything should be flat and white" was a good idea.
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zozbot234 42 days ago
> I'm not sure who thought "everything should be flat and white" was a good idea.

It's just the old Windows 2.0 look.

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dspillett 42 days ago
Windows 2 had plainly visible borders, with decent contrast depending on your colour settings, so you could see what ended where.
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hulitu 42 days ago
The UX designers copied the look, minus the colors, and without functionality. Whoever thinks, that an 1px border for a resizable element on a 4k display is ok, is insane.
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doubled112 42 days ago
The hotkey to allow move and resize from anywhere in a window is my favourite *nix window manager convention.

Windows finally implemented it via PowerToys: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/grab-and...

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dspillett 42 days ago
I must have missed that being added. I'll have to play next time I'm in front of one of my windows machines.
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dspillett 42 days ago
Even back when we had much fewer pixels on most displays, people knew 1px drag targets were a bad idea. Some UIs dos have single pixel borders, but tended to have extra decorations at the corners so there was something larger to interact with there, and/or implemented something like a control key making any point in the window a size/move target.
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