Absolutely. I have a theory that "windows" are called "windows" because of the 3D ridges at the borders. The moment we stopped doing ridges, everything went the wrong direction.
This translucent, rounded, acrylic, material, whatever, it's just not fun. We had the technology for making glorious media players in the year 2000. Where did our technology go?
I'm on linux right now and I checked a bunch of desktop environments and every single one I checked the themes for (the theme browser sucks, by the way) what I see is dark theme with a blue tint, light theme with a blue tint, dark theme with a green tint, light theme with a green tint. A Windows 95, XP, and 7 clone. And that's it?
It just blows my mind. I don't know if it's because the theme browser sucks (the websites to browse the themes also suck, by the way), but I can not find one theme like XP but not XP. I'm left wondering where did all those people who made so many beautiful, glorious, amazing WinAmp themes go to. Did they become extinct? Are the theming APIs too limited today to go all out? Is the technology not there yet to have border-image in your windows borders?
This is just so depressing. I'm hoping the pendulum swings back in the next 10-20 years, and hopefully I'm still alive by then to see some cooler GUIs.
I remember modifying the UI of Virtual DJ 6 for friends that wanted their logo on it. It was all bitmaps. And I guess the different skins were 3D renders on existing DJ decks. But they were beautiful, although there was a period there were some issue when laptops were moving to a wider ratio.
This translucent, rounded, acrylic, material, whatever, it's just not fun. We had the technology for making glorious media players in the year 2000. Where did our technology go?
I'm on linux right now and I checked a bunch of desktop environments and every single one I checked the themes for (the theme browser sucks, by the way) what I see is dark theme with a blue tint, light theme with a blue tint, dark theme with a green tint, light theme with a green tint. A Windows 95, XP, and 7 clone. And that's it?
It just blows my mind. I don't know if it's because the theme browser sucks (the websites to browse the themes also suck, by the way), but I can not find one theme like XP but not XP. I'm left wondering where did all those people who made so many beautiful, glorious, amazing WinAmp themes go to. Did they become extinct? Are the theming APIs too limited today to go all out? Is the technology not there yet to have border-image in your windows borders?
This is just so depressing. I'm hoping the pendulum swings back in the next 10-20 years, and hopefully I'm still alive by then to see some cooler GUIs.