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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:43:55 -0000 (UTC)
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 11/06/2025 13:12, Borax Man wrote:
>> None of this fuzzy flat design with muted pastels in a sea of low 
>> constrast grey featureless tiles for me.
> 
> Amen to that.
> 
> I am sick of 'modern' web site  fill-in boxes in the lightest of gray 
> on a white background placed in arbitrary locations - probably off 
> screen at any level of zoom that allows you to read the text.

You can blame Jony Ive for that.  He pushed the flat, colorless, light 
grey on bright white design for the iphones, and of course most 
'designers' are also Apple Fanboi's at the same time, so they "must 
copy apple" in the look they create everywhere else.

Some have gone so far that the "boxes" have no color or borders at all, 
and the only way to discover there is in fact a form field on screen at 
that spot is to click the area with the mouse and see if the keyboard 
insertion cursor appears in the whitespace.