Speaking of UIs, this is how Thunderbird looks now:
So we continue to let every program make up its own UI style (and then we complain that “the Linux desktop” looks “messy” and “inconsistent”). I guess this uses GTK, but it doesn’t look like any other GTK program. Buttons, tabs, drop-downs, whatever, it’s all different. It even has its own subwindow system (i.e., popups that you can’t move).
I didn’t say this in the blog post, but I’m convinced that programmers these days absolutely positively hate everything that looks even remotely like Windows 95 or Motif – with a passion. I see that in my coworkers as well, they really can’t stand it. It’s an emotional thing.
@movq Yes, yes, yes and yes.
The start screen looks exactly like a website not a desktop application.
I mean, I find Motif also fairly ugly. Granted, it’s a hell lot more discoverable than anything today. The old Windows UIs probably had the best balances. But it’s Windows, it doesn’t have a place in my heart. So, I stick with good old KDE. ;-) That’s my nostalgia kicking in.
But it’s Windows, it doesn’t have a place in my heart.
The older I get, the more I’m glorifying anything pre XP. 😅 But that’s only because everything today is so horrible.
Well, not anything pre XP. 3.0 or newer would be nice, because Windows 2.x was still pretty bare bones:
(OS/2 was great, though, except for the lack of a good file manager.)