Appreciation for traditional desktops and GUI design

[contrarybaton60]

In recent years we all see how most popular software went away from menubars and to more "dumb-down" more mobile style looks and it kinda hurts to see that.

A lot of users see that change and went away from it.

Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, Budgie... heck, even Unity is more considered "traditional" than the modern GNOME and KDE.

On a individual app basis... we're still fine, it's hard to get something like a IDE/code editor or a office program to be "dumbed-down" and most applications still use them (Virtualbox, VLC, Firefox and Thunderbird, Evolution, pretty much all Xfce, Mate, and Linux Mint-specfic programs...)

This is just an appreciation post for this old yet still powerful UI design, bye.

[contrarybaton60]

mmm global menu

[Samueru-sama]

Try this GIMP AppImage: https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/GIMP-AppImage

[contrarybaton60]

simplescreenrecorder-2024-12-27_21.17.12.mp4

nope, doesn't work

[Samueru-sama]

Looks like all global menus used a modified version of gtk that adds the global menu functionality.

In other words the gtk libraries in the AppImage have to come with the feature.

[contrarybaton60]

Ubuntu is the only distro I know of that patches gtk apps to have them, which is why the global menu works there and not on Debian and others

[contrarybaton60]

Debian does contain vala-appmenu packages but it's kinda borked

[Samueru-sama]

it's hard to get something like a IDE/code editor or a office program to be "dumbed-down" and most applications still use them

https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

[contrarybaton60]

screenshots