In b4 someone tells me 6 isn't out yet
Did anyone ever rock Windows Longhorn when they were developing vista?
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I used all of them, I'm feeling old now.
I like 1998 the most. Easy on the eyes and doesn't distract from the content that would appear on the side, but has enough pop to indicate that it can be interacted with.
For me it's the XP scrollbars that do it for me, cause I was sick and tired of the BSoDs I got during the Win9x era (especially in WinMe). I couldn't wait to get a PC with the newer OS as a teen. It was considerably more stable for me (especially after SP2).
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I feel there's missing one
What will be released first? Elder Scroll 6 vs new Windows scroll bar?
In 2012, Tiber Septim achieved Chim and erased the scrollbar textures.
The elder scrolls, online
I remember Windows XP coming out and we all mocked it as Windows but with an interface by Crayola. But I'd gladly have that Crayola interface back rather than the flat modern crap we have now.
I yearn to return to 1998.
It's easily the best option on this image. Nothing else even comes close in terms of visual clarity and simple aesthetics.
I'm not a huge fan of the flat button aesthetic. Give me the 3D-esque buttons and the translucent Aero window frames of Windows Vista.
Our GPUs, even the integrated ones, are powerful enough for it now.
I am scared of the Plasma 6 upgrade. I currently have oxygen theme with a bunch of stuff like lamp minimizing effect, fall apart effect when closing windows, wobbly windows when moving or resizing them, animated rainbow mouse pointer (XP style). Also the loading mouse icon when opening programs is the programs icon jumping up and down.
I am not sure all of it will work on Plasma 6.
I can verify that lamp minimizing, and wobbly windows work on plasma 6 (Arch btw). The only things that stopped working for me were a couple widgets that I found out haven't been updated in like 8 years.
2006 was the peak
I actually prefer 1988, the haven't managed to improve it at all
It worked well in 1988, but in a world of dark mode UIs you can’t tell which is the highlighted area without contour shading.
Combining 2006 and 2009 would be ideal. High contrast etc.
Simplifying the most recent scroll bar feels like a huge step backwards to me. It really is the epitome of modern tech needlessly boiling down to its basic visual aspects to emulate a "clean" environment for the users.
Give me back my scroll bar texture damnit
UIs get worse all the time, very frustrating. Who needs contrast, right? I have good eyes and know exactly where to look. My mother? Holy shit no chance.
At least on the bright side, people are becoming much more aware of accessibility. I'd argue that old sites were accessible mainly on accident due to most being restricted to fairly straightforward CSS and HTML. The advent of Javascript was a dark time...
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Not necessarily for visibility but when i work I NEED FUCKING BORDERS FOR MY FUCKING BRAIN TO KEEP FUCKING STRUCTURE AND NOT EVERYTHING FADING OUT INTO ..yeah thanks i lost the thread again
Seriously fuck Wikipedia's desktop redesign, I regret that I donated before the change
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This. Holy shit is it frustrating to click a pixel wide scroll bar that is on the edge between two monitors. It's even worse when they disappear.
I recently had a complaint with a website:
"Users are having trouble scrolling!"
My response:
"Are they using the scroll wheel/directly scrolling with the touchpad, or using the scroll bar?"
They were, of course, using the scroll bar. I am now somehow responsible for design choices made at the level of the browser, because browsers have decided that the scroll bar should be nigh impossible to use. Yippee.
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Not just scrollbars. Buttons, input fields, etc.
Dammit I sometimes have to search for elements I can interact with. Back in the day it was self explaining.
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