Comments on: There are no ugly GUIs http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: James http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45280 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:59:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45280 There are many objectively hideous user interfaces out there. I’m not even talking about Bob or Hotdog stand. Oh, no. Behold the horror:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/3093372052/
http://images.appshopper.com/screenshots/304/682626.jpg
http://daringfireball.net/misc/2009/03/gpsguide-help.jpg
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Screenshots.php
http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/standards/Rules/Images/badui2.jpg

I’m sure I’ve seen stuff even worse than that once upon a time, but I’m not able to locate it right now.

]]> By: Andy C. http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45205 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:41:48 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45205 I remember Hot Dog Stand was ugly even in monochrome.

]]> By: Prinzzchavo http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45176 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:25:24 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45176 I have spent some years of my life tuning and tweaking, looking for icons, effects, wallpapers… I even created some myself and spent a lot of time on the process, either trying to be original, or copying the best of the best.

When I was on the verge of having the most beautiful Desktop on earth…well, then something new came in my way, and it became my new goal. Windows moving, transparent borders, fancy colors… All of them get old and uncool after some time because that’s not beauty, that’s marketing, and it works like that because no one can describe beauty (lots of philosophers tried hard, though) but, in the name of beauty, people tend to spend money, and everybody can describe money.

Now, tired of looking for “that” beauty (which I almost got, thanks to Linux and its freedom) I can concentrate on using my computer.

For God’s shake! I even found the time to write this huge comment!

]]> By: koleoptero http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45174 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:07:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45174 The people who say things like that about a text-based interface haven’t used one properly. I wish I could do all my work from the command line (even though I post so many shameless bling desktops at UF).

]]> By: gulrot http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45170 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:31:34 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45170 I am a big fan of no menus or borders, so I usually opt for musca and usually take out the menus from opera which is my gui browser, so that I only have the adress field, so for me a good ui is a minimal one, but then again there are other people think otherwise, that’s the nice thing about uis, that they are so personal :)

]]> By: Nils Kunnas http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45165 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:02:30 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45165 I was going to say something, but as a fan of Twm, what do I know?

]]> By: anticapitalista http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45161 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:48:49 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45161 Didn’t puppy linux use that ‘style’ in one of their releases?

]]> By: Artopal http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45159 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:43:47 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45159 I have to agree. There are no ugly UI. There are bad, good, and not so good. But ugly… to each their own.

]]> By: anon http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45157 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:05:41 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45157 Yeah. I find the photons are stabbing my eyes and blinding them, but someone likes it.

The beautiful thing about Linux is choice. ANyone can have a terminal, shiny OS X clone, minialist Fluxbox desktop, default GNOME, blinding KDE desktop… that’s what I love.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45156 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:02:26 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/there-are-no-ugly-guis/#comment-45156 Aw, but somebody somewhere feels sad to think they can’t get that on their Windows 7 desktop. … :mrgreen:

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