Hi, this is just an image of an afternoon’s ideas… stripping back colours to just highlights, and contours to the active bits. Also, it’s what I think is a lovely free font, Raleways.
I’m not sure of the value of unfulfilled mockups like this, but I figure it’s at least better here than unseen in my hard drive…
I don’t mind seeing gradients removed from the equation, but stripping out borders/separator lines is just silly. It doesn’t look better, it makes things less defined, and you either have to use garishly contrasted colors to separate items (ugly) or do what you’re doing and have a muted, low-contrast scheme (hell on people with poor color vision, or even on those of us with normal vision, in sub-optimal lighting conditions.) I know this is the Hot New Thing in UI design right now, but it really is a step backward and you shouldn’t do it.
Actually, this is a great place for mock-ups–you never know when you might stumble upon a great idea that somebody would be interested in implementing in Haiku. Or maybe just triggering a different idea in someone’s mind.
I do like the idea of minimalizing the design, and not having anything more than necessary to run your programs. But the problem I have with no borders in BeOS/Haiku is when I accidentally move a window partially off-screen, and have to get it back in-screen. If the title-bar is off-screen, you can still grab a border to drag the window back in place. If there were no border, how would I move the window?
But one thing I would like to see in Haiku is adjustable border sizes. Not a critical feature by any means, it would just be nice.
There’s a way invoking the window management keycombo. I rarely move/resize windows an other way (at least when a mouse is at hand).
Regards,
Humdinger
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There’s a way invoking the window management keycombo. I rarely move/resize windows an other way (at least when a mouse is at hand).
Regards,
Humdinger[/quote]
Good deal! I overlooked that when skimming through the user guide.