God bless #stablediffusion. Look at this potential rework of the X-Box interface. It's beautiful. Someone get this to Microsoft. @shanselman put this in front of your work friends. Someone get Steve Balmer on the line. This is important. Some art designer please fine tune this with some real icons and fonts and stuff. This could be your magnum opus.
CBI Image of the Day. It is 1984 & the Apple MacIntosh quickly stood out for its relative, small form factor, GUI, and ease of use--garnering substantial adoption in businesses, like this NYC office, schools, and homes.
The cityscape and office setting stand in contrast to the computer lib myth (more than a little irony to revolution myths presented in ultra-expensive Superbowl ads)
Gnome c'était mieux avant (enfin...pour les inconditionnels de la GUI)
Pour passer toutes les apps GTK en thème dark...
Avant : un bouton switch dans une GUI d'ajustement de préférence
Now : gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Adwaita-dark'
...
Bisous les débutant.e.s qui ne parlent pas CLI !
v1.0 then:
“Perl is kind of designed to make #awk and #sed semi-obsolete […] The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).” https://github.com/Perl/perl5/releases/tag/perl-1.0
Been doing a lot of looking around different (graphic) user interface projects over the past year and I'm starting to build a better understanding of first things I think about or look for, mostly from a technical standpoint...
I would love to start developing for smartphones, creating a proper #emacs client totally reimagined for the smartphone is long overdue and a project I could really sink my teeth into. You know the popup keyboard on your phone? You think Steve Jobs invented that? No he didnt, Richard Stallman did, it's called a minibuffer. Emacs was doing all this stuff in the 80s, and way better, even.
But I can't help but hate all the frameworks surrounding mobile development, ie React Native, Swift, Flutter etc, but also from my experience as a user, the apps I've tried that were made with alternative #fp frameworks like #LambdaNative, which had to downsample and skew the resolution to fit my phone's screen, so it didn't seem to even feature responsive design; maybe ok for the hospital software they designed it for but not something for creating applications that the people will use out of their own volition.
I'm pessimistic that "there is no alternative" but seeing how nicely #FDroid is coming along, I'm hoping that I may be wrong. Is there anything promising out there in the #mobile#gui#foss space?
If you're wondering why #java applications have a bad rep for #GUI#accessibility: the default GUI frameworks (SWT, JavaFX, Swing) are not accessible out of the box. None of the components support the keyboard shortcuts available on the various operating systems. It's like they were designed to be as different from everything else as possible. Thinking different hurts accessibility. Do better.
When you discover an interesting tool, and it turns out there's no executable GUI, but to get it running you need to pip a git, hub a stub, sudo a judo, brew a stew, python a cobra and unix a linux… 🤡
I am trying to build a #inventory system with Snipe-IT or Homebox. The plan is to run it on a #SBC and have a USB Code scanner attached to it (Can sb recommend one?). The other option would be to use a #webserver but this would create permanent costs, therefore this is the second option.
The question is now: Which #Linux to use & how to configure it (It needs some kind of #GUI - is a kind of fullscreen Browser possible?).
Do you have any ideas?
The documentation of the desktop environments of early Xerox office workstations such as the Star describe a kind of modal GUI element, the "property sheet". This is what later came to be more widely known as a "dialog box" or just "dialog".
What is your favourite #GUI#Podcast client on #GNU#Linux ? (Asking so I can have a look at some and have better recommendations for friends without #Android).
This is much better than the default TkInter file dialog... I wonder if it would work on a MacOS... (the documenation only mentions Linux distros and Windows)
Every time I explore #GUI making without a proper GUI library/framework, drawing directly on a window with #py5, I get something useful very quickly with lot's of control, but on the other hand, the code starts getting "complicated" quickly.
#PySimpleGUI is awesome for small forms/panels and, as the name implies, simple GUIs. I quickly got blocked by it for this use case. Maybe one day I'll learn #PyQt and "make the jump" to proper GUI building. But the initial complexity is daunting. I'm probably ignoring/overlooking the initial complexity of py5 too, because I'm so used to it and the subjacent #Processing way of doing things!
Do not confuse command pallete with search everywhere (typically Cmd+K) in #DataDog, #Slack, #Spotify, #Monday. It searches through your documents/files, but not through commands and options.
I'll grant that most of the time admin stuff should be done from the shell, just like Unix first intended. But there are some cases where GUI programs are just way too convenient to use something else. For those specific cases, I hacked it my way :)
Are there any usability studies out there about the design of older operating systems or GUIs for the likes of OS/2, Irix, CDE, NextSTEP?
You can still see many concepts from that era today but some things have been dropped, others added, some have evolved, while others were simply unique. I’ve seen studies for Win95, where decisions behind taskbar and windowing are explained. Is there anything like that for other OS?
High-contrast visual themes are supported by the operating system and distributed with it, by default. Users can turn them on and off at need. Microsoft's own software should comply.