[Info-vax] GUI designs

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 13:35:14 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> 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 ...
>
> Notice what you are comparing here: on the one hand, two different OS 
> versions, on the other hand, two different versions of a GUI toolkit that 
> lives entirely in userland.
>

No, I am comparing the same: two different GUI designs that have got
worse over time. The fact that one is integrated into the OS and the other
is an add-on user-level module to another OS does not negate the common
factors of how they have evolved for the worse.

Simon.

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