Excellent point, it’s easy to forget that sometimes. What makes a good gui, in your opinion?
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DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 9 months ago
Making the GUIs not follow the axiom of one tool for each job. I shouldn’t have to use the terminal if I want to zip a file with a password. It should just be an option in the GUI that uses both commands on its own
The whole point of a GUI is to make the system more approachable not to just replicate the terminal but with buttons
lofenyy@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 9 months ago
I grew up in the XP era so I despise modern GUIs in general, I might not be the right person to ask.
I just want all the information clearly labeled and accessible easily. I want to have buttons and checkmarks for every option possible.
The few times I come across the XP control panel menus or a visual basic app I find it so refreshing and useful. Not having to go through 5 screens to change a basic setting or having to Google how the fuck I access the systems energy plan settings because everything’s practically hidden away to keep users from getting “confused”
I just hate the modern trend of “streamlining” and “sleek and modern” designs that just means you have less information, less options and everything is hidden behind 15 submenus.
It’s like when you find a web page that hasn’t been updated since the early 2000s and suddenly you realize how hostile modern web design is to the user
TL:DR: Not wanting to scare users and hiding away everything just makes users more tech illiterate and makes the experience worse for the tech literate users
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Doesn’t 7zip do that?