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[Plasma] Irix theme (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/unixporn@lemmy.world
 

KDE Irixium theme (Kvantum-based), Irix firefox theme with piefed.social theme set to Irix too.

Love those thicc window borders, 3D buttons and real obvious scrollbars.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When there is one thing I hate about modern UIs is the lack of scrollbars. UIUX always talk about affordability but why do they stop there and ignore the humble scrollbar which signals that the content it is attached to is scrollable!?

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

This. And let's not talk about nested scrollable areas with disappearing bars

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everything about modern UI is about appearance over function. Is a window resizeable? No way to know because no windows have frames. Is that text a button? No way to know because buttons don't have frames either.

Every Modern app is clicking the screen at random until you learn the interactive elements.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well we had modern UIs with appearance + function. It was during the Frutiger Aero era (mac OS X, Windows Vista). But that got lost somehow, and that makes me sad :(

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I consider that a transition time, not Modern. Windows had frames but were more subdued than 1990's style. Buttons were still distinguished from text.

Yeah, it was probably peak UI.

[–] MuAraeOracle@real.lemmy.fan 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That takes me back, it looks a bit like CDE on Sun servers around 2000, just more colorful.

cde

From http://xahlee.info/kbd/sun_microsystems_keyboard.html

[–] user224 4 points 1 month ago

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes! I was thinking my last Solaris desktop looked much like that.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As it always is, GTK and Qt apps look inconsistent. Also the panel icons look too modern. Other than that good even though I don't like retro UI. 9/10.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

iirc Kvantum manager helps you pick GTK theme, dunno if there's a same or similarly matching theme tho.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

dunno if there's a same or similarly matching theme tho

That's the thing. "Identical" GTK and Qt themes pretty much always have differences. There are limitations to each toolkit after all.

[–] moe93@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Looks really good I might steal it for my setup

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago