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Is it just me or do you guys miss these type of skeuomorphic icons? (lemmy.world)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know about all of you, I don't like these new flat icons that everyone is using. What ever happened to the old icons, like on iPhone and Samsung they used to have them years ago. Those were good times. Now it is always these stupid boring cartoonish designed icons. Side note: Somebody please update this icon pack. I am trying to use it on xfce on arch but some of the icons aren't working properly because it hasn't been updated in a while. I'll donate to you right away if you do it. Link to the repo: https://github.com/madmaxms/iconpack-obsidian

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

It is by no means just you. I really hate how everything has to be so flat and shadow-less nowadays. I'm not at the point of shaking my fist at clouds yet or anything, but I really miss skeuomorphism in general!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

I like how tidy it is. But I do prefer to be able to see icon shapes at a glance with my terrible eyesight as it helps identify.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The thing I'm more nostalgic for was the time when everything had to be a glistening amorphous translucent blob, a bit like the Cingular Wireless logo or the MusicMatch Jukebox logo. And I'm in that era where you can just play MSN messenger sounds and you'll get an OH MY GOD out of me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Frutiger Aero, I think.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I've had the MSN message sound as my SMS Ringer for years now. The looks I get from people are fantastic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago

Absolutely not.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (8 children)

Personally I don't, I kinda hate old skeuomorphism 😅

Neo skeuomorphism has some neat novelty though.

Edit: this is just my personal aesthetic preference, I don't begrudge anyone their love of skeuomorphism, or nostalgia for it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I still have some screenshots from my old Android G1 that is skeuomorphism galore. It’s nostalgic.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Sometimes I think that I miss skeuomorphism, but then I realize it's not the skeuomorphism that I miss, but my childhood and days when the world was much simpler.

Would I like to bring back skeuomorphic UIs? Yes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm too old to be nostalgic for skeuomorphism. But a retina-burning amber monochrome monitor, text mode, with menus and UIs built out of ASCII graphics, or at best, 640 x 480 CPU-driven graphics modes? Now you're talking.

From my perspective, the skeuomorphic era of the early-late 2000s is still "modern".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Ya I feel you, I remember I had an iPod when I was a kid with the icons I think it was iOS 6. Now when I try to find skeuomorphic icon packs on Linux it is almost impossibile and the ones you do find are abandoned ☹️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

What icon pack? (Is this post supposed to be a link?)

Edit: Ah. Now there's an image.

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