I don’t know about all of you, I don’t like these new flat icons that everyone is using. What ever happened to the old icons, like on iPhone and Samsung they used to have them years ago. Those were good times. Now it is always these stupid boring cartoonish designed icons. Side note: Somebody please update this icon pack. I am trying to use it on xfce on arch but some of the icons aren’t working properly because it hasn’t been updated in a while. I’ll donate to you right away if you do it. Link to the repo: https://github.com/madmaxms/iconpack-obsidian

  • yum13241@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I use this icon pack. A very good GTK/Qt/Kvantum/whatever is Simplewaita. It goes together well with the icon pack.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    1·
    5 days ago

    Skeuomorphic, IMHO, is the best thing that happened to the world of software. I don’t ever understand why the whole industry shifted to the ugly flat shit design.

  • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Colorful icons were amazing. That’s literally why the iMac sold so well. Colorful. Prove me wrong.

  • monovergent 🏁@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    It’s nice and easy on the eyes. I conjecture that glossy and matte (as seen here) styles of skeuomorphism gave way to more abstract design since:

    • Skeuomorphism is hard to get just right without being excessive and tacky
    • Saturated, simple blocks of color pop out more, particularly on the increasingly prevalent mobile UI
    • And thus also have better shelf appeal

    If it were up to me, the red line would be when buttons and interactive elements are indistinguishable from text. The stock Android settings is probably among the worst offenders in this regard.

    What I really miss is light mode that isn’t hated for blinding users and dark mode that doesn’t plunge the user into the void. Those “toolbars” look lovely, perfect for any lighting condition or time of day. I’ve yet to understand why, at present, designers insist on pure white everywhere when it comes to light mode. Maybe everyone is using the night light filter so it doesn’t matter? At least pure black dark mode makes sense for power efficiency on OLEDs.

    • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
      1·
      6 days ago

      Skeuomorphism is hard to get just right without being excessive and tacky

      that was always my impression of os x back in the day. it felt tacky as hell. i’m a linux guy, but windows’s aero was so much more beautiful

  • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
    01·
    6 days ago

    skeumorphism is fucking ugly and it’s the main thing that made me dislike the appearance of os x back in the day. it honestly blew my mind people found apple to be the vanguard of graphical design

  • richardisaguy@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 days ago

    i don’t, not at all, but still think elementaryOS looks beautiful! Like holy hell, even on their websites they manage to make their design look good!