A question of themes - solved (mostly)

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2022-10-29 at 19:44 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-10-28 at 13:39 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/28/gnome_42_inconsistent_themes/
> > > https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/27/the_gnome_project_is_closing/
> > 
> 
> I think that second URL is quite concerning - in seeing the text of the 
> URL, it appears that it signifies an end to all of the gnome 
> applications

Hi,

inadvertently, however, it is true and not just real GNOME apps are
affected.

I fount out that the user interfaces of one app after the other gets
rendered useless. Today I upgraded Evolution, see the screenshots and
the text explaining the problems here:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2022-November/msg00001.html

I don't know of any other such idiotic user interface design. Some
people compare the design with Windows or mobile devices, but this is
misleading. I'm running Windows 11 and older Windows versions in VMs and
I'm using a lot of apps running on iPadOS. The design of Windows or
iPadOS apps is not nearly that counterproductive, let alone that the
user interface design of third party apps running on iPadOS usually is
superb.

On the FreeBSD questions mailing list I recommended a user with a Gimp
issue to migrate to Krita. I mentioned that migration from Gimp to Krita
is an annoyance in the beginning, but worth the effort on the long run.
The user thanked me for the tip yesterday.

GNOME/gtk renders one app after the other useless.

Some people might claim that I'm trolling, but can those people explain
why e.g. some icons are on the left side of the whatever this bar is
called and other icons are on the right side of this bar in a really
wide window. Why are the icons moved to different bars? Why wasn't one
tool bar enough? All those icons are for options you need one by the
other. And with all that space, why do they remove text? They could
display the text beside the icons, there's enough space. What is better,
if the text is only displayed by barely readable text if the mouse
pointer does hover over the icon? It's not an improvement to the old
user interface. The new user interface is against reason. Everybody can
see this, without ever reading a scientific book related to user
interface design.

FWIW while writing this mail I changed Evolution > View > Switcher
appearance from "Toolbar style/show buttons" to "Icons and Text/Show
Buttons" and to "Text only" with "Show Buttons" disabled or enabled.
Those options don't make a difference.

This is either outright stupidity or malicious intent to break good
FLOSS applications, or both.

Regards,
Ralf