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Is it just me or do you guys miss these type of skeuomorphic icons? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by generaledelsud@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I don't know about all of you, I don't like these new flat icons that everyone is using. What ever happened to the old icons, like on iPhone and Samsung they used to have them years ago. Those were good times. Now it is always these stupid boring cartoonish designed icons. Side note: Somebody please update this icon pack. I am trying to use it on xfce on arch but some of the icons aren't working properly because it hasn't been updated in a while. I'll donate to you right away if you do it. Link to the repo: https://github.com/madmaxms/iconpack-obsidian

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[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

God, no!

Though these do look pretty, they don't look like the buttons in Windows 95/XP and maybe that's a good thing.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I liked the soft gradient XP icons, though maybe that's just the nostalgia talking

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What icon pack? (Is this post supposed to be a link?)

Edit: Ah. Now there's an image.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I miss being able to use bitmapped fonts back in the Gnome 1.x days.

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

My primary icon theme and widget style are 20+ years old and not flat in the least. You can still have that look and feel on a real computer if you want it (but you may have to compromise elsewhere or do some extra work). On phones, all bets are off.

Dunno what your issue with that icon pack is, but I'd bet there's a good chance it can be solved with a few file renames or symlinks if you care enough to bother.

[–] gortbrown@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

Kinda, yeah! These kinda remind me of some of the icon packs I used on my jailbroken iPod Touch!

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No. Old UI is terrible. The newest UI with extremely rounded corners is bad too but I'd much rather use it than old stuff.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How about flat, easy to recognise icons and straight, square windows and app designs?

Brutalism for your DE!

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 2 points 1 week ago

I still have some screenshots from my old Android G1 that is skeuomorphism galore. It’s nostalgic.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I do miss them. But I'm happy with my custom Suru++ Aspromauros icons too.

[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I don't understand flatness either. Neither I understand the dark themes either. My eyes and brain simply can't do the separation easily, I spend more time trying to process an image. Old style icons and UI colors are the best IMHO.

[–] datendefekt@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actually no, I hated the Vista era UI design. Linux themes were positively garish, add MacOS looked like a candy store. CDE greatly impressed me back then. It looked like it was made by adults for adults. Highly legible, and the pastel colors are being emulated by Solarized.

I'm sure that those UIs were a product of the times. The 90's and noughties were loud and colorful and exciting and everything looked like a comic. Now that we live in more depressing times, we can look to the science of perceptual psychology.

You see, we have an attention budget, we need to process what we see. Visually complex UIs need to be parsed, and that takes mental effort, and that robs us of mental energy to focus on our work. It's not a crippling effect, but it's there.

Look at street signs and corporate logos, they easily lodge in our mind. Effective advertising has a clear and simple visual language, and this is what UIs should strive for.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You see, we have an attention budget, we need to process what we see. Visually complex UIs need to be parsed

One of the reasons i like interfaces with clear lines. But that doesn't fit icons, all-same-isch looking rectangles are not easier to parse than "objects". The mind is optimized for 3D, not for abstract icons.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely not.

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