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  • The problem with customisable selected state icons, is the inconsistency in the select state. Means it isn’t always immediately obvious whether something is selected or not. WB 2.04+ added borders around the icons to resolve this. Most of the time you don’t need them though, especially if people stick to the more modern GlowIcons style.

    But otherwise, Workbench/Intuition did nearly everything right in terms of UI design. Close gadget nowhere near anything else you’re going to click on, menus at the top (pointer constrained by the screen, makes it easier to get to the menus), windows that don’t come to the front as soon as you look at them (makes it easier to rearrange windows the way you want them). If you want something full screen it can go on its own screen, and if something is multi window they can all be grouped together on their own screen.


  • Window drag bars shouldn’t be full of clutter.

    Yeah, I’m looking at you especially Microsoft, with random toolbar buttons, search box (!), and lord knows what else crammed into the drag bar of your applications. So much so that there’s very little actual drag bar to grab should I (gasp) actually want to move the window somewhere else.

    Which brings me onto windows should not all be full screen. Especially with the size and resolution of modern monitors, there’s no reason to have everything full screen all the time. But, from what I’ve seen, most people do. I think this is why drag bars are increasingly being filled with garbage. And probably why lots of apps seem to be designed to only run full screen size.
























  • Chris@feddit.ukOPtoFeddit UK@feddit.uklemmings.world
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    25 days ago

    Hmm, so federation seems to be working, at least I managed to post a comment from another instance, and mod the user. What they’ve posted hasn’t made it back here yet.

    Some context: I have a bot I run on [email protected] I set all this up before the site was geoblocked, otherwise I would have put it elsewhere. As it happened, everything still worked so I didn’t immediately notice the blocking. The bot (which runs on Google compute in Belgium) stopped working today at the same time as Connect.

    I’m thinking now that something has been hardened at lemmings.world which means it’s pretty much unusable for me.