I don’t think this is a real issue in the age of bespoke design for applications. Only a minority of then use the OS widgets for their interface. You can argue that this is a bad thing, but then the context menus are just a tiny portion of the entire issue.
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
mint_tamas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
As annoying as it is, I’d rather have visually inconsistent elements rather than broken applications. There’s something to be said for backwards compatibility.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Steam has a somewhat inconsistent interface in some aspects, but for some reason it is acceptable.
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 3 weeks ago
I don’t get it
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Most people don’t care about this, and I wish I didn’t, but for whatever reason my brain just hates inconsistency like this, and Windows is the absolute worst for it.
Context menus like this, UI elements from many different windows versions, 5+ UX toolkits in use at any given time, inconsistent padding, inconsistent fonts, dark mode preference being listened to for one app and ignored in another.
I hate Apple, have never owned any of their products and likely never will, but they’d be embarrassed if they had a UX this sloppy and inconsistent. They’d straight up not release it.
Linux DEs are far more visually cohesive than Windows (especially the likes of Gnome and ElementaryOS), even KDE which was/is frequently mocked for being a bit ugly and inconsistent has improved leaps and bounds recently and is now far more consistent than Windows. And they’re all working on a combined budget that’s probably less than 1% of Window’s. Wtf are Microsoft doing??
Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I like the cut of your jib.