Everything is better than Liquid Glass
Do you prefer fluffy UI over Liquid Glass?
Submitted 3 hours ago by cm0002@piefed.social to memes@sopuli.xyz
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lexiw@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
I don’t understand this. People have been nostalgic for windows 7 aero for years. I maintained since 7 came out that aero was the best windows UI ever made. It’s so pretty and functional. I run Linux with an aero theme to this day.
Why all of a sudden does everyone hate the glass look? It’s like a switch flipped.
tyler@programming.dev 1 hour ago
Windows 7’s Aero was amazing. Liquid Glass is terrible.
lexiw@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I don’t dislike aero or glass, I just dislike iOS implementation of it. With the wrong background sometimes you can’t read buttons for example, and a myriad of little things that are insignificant on their own but a pain in numbers.
otacon239@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’ll join in and say that I also don’t understand the hate. I get the readability and accessibility stuff, but as far as pure aesthetic, I personally really enjoy it. I haven’t personally run into the supposed complete workflow hitches that others seem to have with it.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 1 hour ago
I was never a fan of aero, but I don’t care a lot about UIs in general. It’s just that Liquid Glass as implemented by Apple specifically is terrible. When I first updated to it I was looking for how to tune it down and found this article that covers what I think is the biggest issue with their implementation: macworld.com/…/this-liquid-glass-toggle-is-a-wind…
They focused so much on making it pretty that it ceased to be functional. There should not be animation lag on basic UI elements. My phone is not that old and my screen will freeze up with a big Liquid Glass bubble obscuring the display for at least a full 2 seconds depending on the button I press. They allow per app Liquid Glass settings, which is great considering how terribly it’s been implemented on certain apps, but the fact it’s deemed necessary should be a huge indicator of the overall quality. A nonzero amount of dev time was put into making sure we can reject their design direction and still that doesn’t work. The safari browser implementation of turning off LG leaves empty blocks on the top and bottom of the screen instead of the normal fade away of those elements, and that is their own browser. I imagine a lot will be patched out soon, but the roll out has been a buggy disaster in my opinion. I think it’s really colored people’s opinion on LG in general now.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I never used Windows Vista, but now that that look is back and I’m forced to use mac, I feel like I dodged a bullet and it ricoched back right in my eyes.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 hours ago
Yeah. I’ve been using Macs since System 6 and while I’ve often disagreed with Apple’s direction, this is the first one that feels downright incompetent, in much the same way as Microsoft’s Vista and Windows 8 designs were.
There’s no consistency between how things look and how they behave. There is useless clutter everywhere. Legibility of text is an afterthought. It’s like they forgot the distinction between graphic design and UI design.
But it looks pretty at a glance, so…great…
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Fuck off, I don’t want to have to vacuum my phone.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
Do they squish in deeply when you click them?
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Is this a jailbreak theme?
I’ve held off on updating iOS for literally this.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 minutes ago
jailbreak
That is a term I have not heard in a long, long time
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
I don’t mind Liquid Glass, it’s fine. Fluffy though? Oh man that absolutely would have been a MobileSubstrate tweak back in the wild days of jailbreaking.
I adore this.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I just use flat icons. Flat everything to be honest.
godlesspriest@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
ios support custom launchers ?
blinfabian@feddit.nl 2 hours ago
i like both, but this fluffy stuff is so cool, id install it if there was a launcher that did this
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
You know what? Actually yes. This looks awesome.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I like consistency more than the actual style usually. The notification badge on the tiktok icon bothers me the most here, it should be fluffy as well
That was my biggest issue with the style of win8 and 10, chaotic. With win11 is finally mostly consistent… But I use linux and gnome now, but it’s annyoing if an app is qt, not gtk, and the chaos comes back again.
bricked@feddit.org 2 hours ago
You could take a look at wiki.archlinux.org/…/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_…
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I just like the fact that it has some character and personality. Why don’t we have more stuff with character and personality?