On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:00:21 -0600 J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Pros"? > <rant> > It greatly irritates me that the Linux developer community has followed both > Gnome's and Microsoft's leads in dumbing down (and locking down) the user > interface. For instance, I can't understand their shift from Serif fonts to > Sans-Serif, making reading text much harder; and taking away much of the > user-customization options. > Why does Gnome waste so much screen real-estate with large fonts, icons and > borders? Is this because they expect Linux users to follow the Windows > community's habit of maximizing their application windows, even with today's > high-resolution displays? > </rant> Reason 1: Fashion. There are styles and trends in interface designs just like everything else. Currently, minimalism and low information density are trendy. Microsoft, Apple, and Google set the trends, and everyone else either goes along or consciously decides not to. Gnome is going along, I suspect. Reason 2: The idiotic pursuit of one GUI to rule them all. Instead of optimizing one interface for use on devices with big screens and precise pointers, and a different one for devices with small touch-screens, they want to do it all at once, and then are surprised when they produce something that isn't a good fit for either. Reason 3: Regarding the serif vs sans-serif thing in particular, studies show that which one you find easier to read depends mostly on which you were exposed to when you started reading. Younger people are more likely to prefer sans fonts. Plus it ties back into that silly minimalism trend. Reason 4: They think their users are stupid. In Microsoft/Apple/Google's cases, this may actually be the truth for 50% or so of their users. Reason 5: Again, in Microsoft/Apple/Google's cases, since 90% of their users will never change the default settings (or will be locked out of them by corporate administrators), they don't want to put the effort into maintaining unused code that makes them no money and siphons up no marketing data. E. Liddell ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
