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#UI #Design Grumps' #Manifesto:

  • Scrollbars should be thick enough to grab easily with an ordinary mouse.
  • Scrollbars should be a part of the window decoration, NOT inside the content of the window.
  • Active titlebars and inactive titlebars should be completely different colors or brightnesses. Obvious at the quickest glance.
  • Client Side Decorations are stupid, I don't care how many people say otherwise, or how many times. They're just awful on so many levels.
  • All text should be of decently high contrast, and any text atop varying elements like videos should be outlined and/or shadowed for maximum visibility. No more stupid plain white text atop bright videos, you absolute station wagons.
  • Any program, whether gui or CLI, should be comfortable and usable in either light or dark mode, depending on the user's preference.
Linh Pham

@rl_dane I would like to make two amendments to the great manifesto:

1. Tied to client-side decorations (which is greatly dislike), applications should never be able to override the presence of window borders. And, if they insist upon that, then the option to enable and set window border width must be mandatory.

2. Do not require pixel perfect placement of the active point of the cursor to resize or move windows.

@qlp

Oh man, yes!

Requiring pixel-accuracy for anything on modern displays is insanity.

#LibreOffice is guilty of this on occasion.

@rl_dane I've definitely struggled with LibreOffice on that front quite a bit as well.

Also, Visual Studio Code (along with VSCodium and Theia IDE) is a royal pain, especially because it doesn't present window borders without enabling the native titlebar (which has it's own quirks and features). The problem there is losing vertical real estate, an already significant issue on 16:9 screens. 🤦🏼

@qlp

I'm not a coder or anything, but man, I'd rather edit code in EDLIN on an 8088 than dink around with vscrap. Egad.

@rl_dane I have tried to use JetBrains PyCharm for my projects, but I feel like it's clunkier and slower than VS Code (which is already clunky and slow in its own right).

If I had the spare time, I definitely want to sit down and learn set up and use NeoVim to my liking. If/when that happens, I'll be more than happy to ditch VS Code.

@qlp

I will man your cheering section at a moment's notice. ^___^

@rl_dane @qlp while not quite single pixel - some of Blender's arrangement windows require very tight mousework 😠