we're a long way from 3.1 now, but the lesson to be learned is 100% as relevant today as it was then
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I sigh as I look to the side of my browser window to a 5px wide scroll bar that disappears when I'm not hovering over it.
if you're using desktop Firefox you can use custom CSS (and possibly canned add-ons? i forget) to style the scrollbar. mine's always a certain higher-than-default thickness and dark, for example. and doesn't disappear if a page is scrollable.
I'm waiting for the day I finally give in and start using custom CSS on firefox because I finally get fed up with their UI decisions.
my entire top FF UI is the height of the URL field and still fully featured. custom CSS in FF is REALLY good and powerful.
How often does it break? That'd be my only worry, getting it just the way I like it and then it being fuckin' busted when the next ESR hits.
you know, it used to be a little more turbulent like 3-4 years ago but since then, i haven't noticed my CSS customizations degrading once, as far as i recall.
my one-line UI looks like this, quite a drastic change from default. (the vertical tabs are an add-on. and pardon all the pinned tabs)
i followed the tips in https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html to whack firefox's scrollbar into shape with just some about:config directives. obv this doesn't help if the browser in question is chromium, which... abandon all hope etc.
I've been daring myself to install this for months now. https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
I've been running this for a while. There is a bit of jank in setting it up and tweaking things but once I got that figured out it's been fun c:
wtf you can use fvwm3 with this??????? as a daily fvwm user that's actually kinda sick i may try this (my regular setup breaks with fvwm3)
usability is actually better in windows 2000 than it is in modern windows. not only is everything much easier to distinguish, but you can change settings without drilling down through a series of windows that span 20 years of implemented-obsoleted-but-never-fully-replaced control panel designs
its genuinely so nauseating to me whenever i have to actually Do something to my computer and it means grappling with the fact that windows 10 is just an uglier wrapper for vista which is, itself, just an uglier wrapper for xp. but im not allowed to just take off the wrapping paper.
there's been a lot of serious under the hood improvements, but you'd never be able to tell by looking at how it makes us dig through the UI fossil record every single fucking time
Hot Dog Stand options are important. Nobody wants them but if they aren't there then somebody is telling you what you can and can't do and I don't like people doing that to me.
I feel like the second that Haiku gets a single fully functional modern browser it's over for every other operating system
honestly yeah, that is the main thing that fucks shit up for haiku i think. definitely not the ONLY thing, but i love how it feels and if i could only use it as a defacto internet kiosk then that'd be an upgrade from it being mostly a novelty cool-UI-toybox
Biased given it's (well, os7 & 8) is what I learned to computer on, but the MacOS 9 design language with modern window management features would pretty much be my dream desktop environment.
i'd go back to it in a heartbeat with no changes whatsoever. i mean, apart from the co-op multitasking. that can fuck off
having never used os 9 before (engineer dad -> surplus windows machines from work), using it just feels comfy. i know where UI elements stop, there's enough eye candy with animations etc. to make things feel satisfying to use, i can imagine exactly how the title bar feels to run my fingers over
theres absolutely gonna be jank that i havent run across cause im not gonna connect an ancient laptop to the internet, but feels wise: mwah chefs kiss good nice job
On iOS i always leave button shapes on because it just makes the UI way easier to navigate for me