[Info-vax] GUI designs, was: Re: RMS intro

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-03, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Me, I regarded Windows 2000 as the peak of their GUI design, and it's
> been getting worse, on average, ever since. 
>

Unfortunately, that seems to be the case with modern GUI designs in
general.

For example, compare the disaster that is GTK4 with the much cleaner GTK2,
including how there is no regard to backwards compatibility or fully
duplicating existing functionality. Also, just how arrogant and out of
touch modern GUI designers are.

How to move from GTK3 to GTK4 (basically, rewrite your code):

https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html

One very arrogant GUI designer example from a couple of years ago:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787

Basically, more blurry and hard to read text in GTK4 wasn't considered
a problem by the current GTK developers and users were initally told
outright it was not going to be fixed. :-(

Simon.

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