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    [–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Not necessarily, but humans are creatures of habit. If your app doesn't follow existing patterns, you better have a good reason for it.

    It is true however that UX research is pretty poor on Linux, outside of say Gnome, but I think Linux apps could also take notes from market leaders and see what works from them and why.

    It's not always just a spreadsheet comparison of features, it's considering the UX for different screens and user journeys and comparing them to one another.

    [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    You kidding me? Gnome has the worst UX of them all. The UI is kind of OK, but the UX is fucked beyound repair.

    [–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I disagree, they've got a consistent UX framework across the board, inputs are clear, navigation is the same across gdk apps. Is it consistent with other DEs? Not quite. But all gnome apps are easy to use, have pleasing UIs and generally share patterns that make it easy to see them as part of the same family even if an app is third party.

    [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I agree on consistency. It does have vision and it is consistently implemented.
    It has different problems. It doesn't play well with apps written not for it, it doesn't allow for a good deal of customisation, and full of bugs and questionable decisions. All the UI stuff is subjective, but bugs and unresponsiveness isn't.

    [–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Eh can't really blame it for not being more open I think to customisation, it is an issue but not really a UX one I think. Any UI could be faulted for that then, not being customisable enough. As for apps not written for it again, not something they have control over. Could say the same about any DE, or even Mac or windows when they use non standard blocks

    [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

    but not really a UX

    What else could it be if not UX. Not being able to setup a shortcut for the keyboard layout change without a bunch of bullshit hoops is an eXperience I have as a User.

    Any UI could be faulted for that then

    Yes, it's a metric by which we measure the experience. Sometimes things should and could be easily customisable, and if they aren't, it's a fault of the UI.

    As for apps not written for it again, not something they have control over

    If they're making a window manager, they need to consider apps that user might run with this window manager. If for example a browser doesn't render half of the internet correctly because they added an unexpected rendering conventions, it's a shit browser. Same could be said about desktop environment.
    Other DE expected to run apps, Gnome expects that you write your app with Gnome in mind, that's a big difference.