On 9/13/2020 at 5:12 PM, centersolace said:I fired up my old iMac from years back and was taken aback by now nice it looked compared to modern OS X.
My macbook pro 2011 still looks like this; I never update the OS if I can help it. They tricked me once into updating because my VPN program said it would work, but it didn't and they wanted me to update again or update to an OS that apple wouldn't allow on my macbook. I forget which. Anyways, I was also thinking about this interface when I mentioned that "stock look" to one of the chosen GUI skins.
I have a somewhat updated ipad & iphone though (I also have never updated it, unless forced), and the flat design just doesn't fit. They should just go back to the old way. Even my android phones have all the flat UI stuff with gestures. I don't like it - I prefer gingerbread and older (G)UIs myself.
On 9/13/2020 at 5:12 PM, centersolace said:The little reflections the icons have when they're sitting on that fake "table" looking thing gives it such a nice sense of physicality
I always thought the reflection was a little much, even distracting. I was always wondering how much extra CPU/GPU overhead that was taking up, too, since I always had a bit of lag with that laptop. The "genie" minimizing animation made me think of that too, but I thought that was a nice effect; as opposed to the scaling effect. I liked having a quick way to have a chance at remembering right where the program was in the dock.
On physicality, this was the expressed purpose of "material design" when google launched it in 2014, but clearly they chose "let's make everything flat and eliminate long presses and other good idea in favor of gestures because objects move and now you can move list items" (gestures suck in comparison to some of the old ways, like long pressing to right click). But apple did get material design right *the very first time* with iOS. But that's all gone now, and it's worth avoiding apple 
On 9/14/2020 at 2:23 AM, RaTcHeT302 said:literally
https://files.catbox.moe/hdmdvk.png
