But something that’s different would rationally be called not copying, whereas you categorize it as poor copying. Interesting.
I would categorize it as poor copying because the copy doesn’t conform to the design / UX patterns that were present on the “original” work.
My point is: if you want to copy / be inspired by others at least do it right.
it is trivial to disable all animations
Yeah you can go into settings and toggle of a switch, however they don’t disable everything. ~
Whenever you go into Settings > Accessibility > Enable Animations and disable it one would expect that ALL animations would be disabled while in fact they aren’t. It should behave like Xfce that is, click on something and get the instant result, no delay, no very small animation / fade like GNOME still does.
Bottom line: that option in GNOME is misleading and doesn’t do what it advertises.
To be honest I felt a bit lost on MacOs Catalina and felt like everything was difficult compared to Gnome.
Just because you aren’t used to the macOS workflow it doesn’t mean it is bad - that’s the same argument you GNOME fan boys do with Windows users ;)
But I guess Gnome is taking a lot of inspiration from the MacOs aesthetic, and it’s okay with me because it looks great.
Yes, it’s okay, and that was never an issue in this discussion. The issue is that they didn’t took enough inspiration on basic UX patterns.
This is an application of Fitts’s law. I saw some paper referencing it to back that kind of margins on destructive actions but I don’t remember the title.
Your point being…?
Apple thinks their users are smart enough to use tags, while Gnome developers think the user are too dump to use tags
Isn’t this ironic? The DE with a user base that is way more tech savvy people thinks users can’t use tags.
macOS has no proper software management, all apps try to up-sell me on their shitty i-cloud offerings,
What are you talking about?? At least on macOS app icons are consistent not the crap they are on GNOME.
macOS (…) setup cannot be properly automated
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Apple makes automated setup even easier than it is on MS ecosystems, companies can literally buy a computer on the Apple Store and have it shipped to an employee with the companie’s profile pre-installed by Apple without even needing to touch or open the box. The employee get’s the computer, opens the box and just has to login with this corporate account.
You’ve Apple’s own MDM, Jamf, JumpCloud and so many others. Even Ansible can be used to configure, setup and automated macOS deployments.
macOS feels too slow for the hardware it runs on…
Well at least it doesn’t like a 5 second pointless fade animation after every single click like GNOME does, nor does it bundle web technologies for theming that make the DE be as slow as it can get when it comes to rendering a new window.
You aren’t wrong, but that has nothing to do with he issue at hand. They should copy each other if a solution is good, and that’s the issue here, GNOME forgot to copy a good UX practice that Apple actually took the time to implement.
According to the UX experts you don’t need the space between the save and discard buttons as long as the “save” is the first one. Missclick are more prone to happen from top to bottom than the other way around, so if the user wanted to hit “save” it’s more likely he will click above the button than it is to click “discard”. Same logic applied down there, when the using is looking to cancel it’s easier to missclick and hit the “discard” button than anything else.
I’m curious what you are referring to losing work due to a misclick?
If you place “Discard” and “Cancel” next to each other, without a margin in between, is easier a user looking to click on “Cancel” to click on “Discard” and lose a document. This is more common than people think and that’s why Apple added the margin there and also why any good UX manual tells you to add a margin for destructive operations like that one.
I’ve always thought Bootstrap, the web design library, has a good set of base colors
Yes it does. Those guys did a really good job.
See the problem there, regular users don’t Ctrl+s, they point and click.
Just because you like apple doens’t mean that apple does a perfect job and GNOME should copy it. GNOME does a lot of thing better than apple.
Yes, so let’s copy Apple and keep the few things GNOME does well.
https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
That’s definitely interesting.
Not a permanent dock. Docks predate Apple any way.
The Dock comes from NeXTSTEP, the operating system Steve Jobs left Apple to develop back in 1986… GNOME was announced in 1997 so I don’t get your argument.
Client Side Decorations, and ignoring their community when it comes to things like desktop icons.
Well I’ve complained about those a couple of time… but people always say that it’s their vision.
I’m kind of on the same boat you’re… however KDE tends to have issues with visual proportions and margins everywhere.
The issue there isn’t only differentiation, that well done, the issue is that an user might miss click because both buttons are close to each other.
In-depth analysis ≠ random ramblings on lemmy.
That’s what the paper was about, the law also applies the in reverse, adding the space protects the user because it makes it harder to click on the hitbox.