I hate this. I’m pretty sure this gave me PTSD somehow.
I don’t think that those three buttons would be in the statusbar. “Add a Game” would be in the sidepane “Games”, “Manage Downloads” and “Friends and Chat” would be a view (in the sidepane) instead of a button.
but overall, a damn beautiful interface :)
Frutiger Aero from Windows Vista and 7 was the peak of UI design.
It was so much more welcoming and fun. Sure it sucks at scalability but that’s easily resolved with proper vector graphics.
I think I speak for everyone when I say
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Were you actually an awesome gamer though?
Oh fuck. We need themes on steam client
You can. They are called skins though.
Apparently official skin support no longer exists but Millennium for Steam looks like an unofficial tool that can be used for skins.
Yeah, I used to mess about with it but it became too much because Steam updates so damn much.
This just hits hard
Oh man, that formatting nostalgia hit.
Can we return to Aero? Is that too much to ask?
Skip aero. Let’s go back to compiz fusion and deskcubes.
Have a look at Wayfire. It’s a Wayland compositor that implements a lot of the compiz effects/plugins. I recently found that but haven’t tried it myself as I don’t really care about wobbly windows and cubes as much as I did 15+ years ago when I first tried compiz as a teenager :D
I’m rocking a desktop octagon with two monitors with all the fancy window animations on and still using less ram that windows on idle lol.
New KDE brought the cube back!
I’ve been long enough on this place that I know you can get similar effects on Linux
(not mine, found on image search)
first screenshot doesn’t look like aero at all tbh. second one more so. this is the most accurate port I know of tho https://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma
i want to install plasma just for this now
This is the kind of thing I had in mind!
Aero is more than just the blur effect, modern OS’s still have that in spades.
It’s pretty easy! This is my desktop right now. I do like it a liiitle less gaudy and my mac use at work means that I prefer my window controls on the left instead of the right.
Second picture theme is called: Clearglass. Icon: Glass icons by Palko drawing.
…For anyone interested
Needs to be running on Linux to make it perfect.
Well atleast for Gnome we have AdwSteamGTK which make Steam fit seemingly into LibAdwaita.
A better timeline?Windows UI design peaked with Windows 98 and Unix UI design peaked with IRIX imo
Back when they had consistent style guidelines to follow (I remember reading them, along with deep descriptions of how PnP actually works - yuck!).
Now they just throw shit at the wall it seems
10/10
Well of course it’s a timeline, it’s the timeline of hell.
Missed opportunity to include Portal 3
Perfect choice of game to display this
I don’t know how to feel about this.
It’s making my micro soft
