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I hope they continue learning lessons from other OSes.
I'm feeling like you are wrong about them outright copying. Some good things can be taken from macOS and Windows. But a lot of bad things too, which is why they are thinking it through.
Please do not reduce the community effort to "cloning macOS". It's insulting to the people working on it... Apple doesn't own modals or modal design.
Here there are not 20 ways of putting 3 buttons in a modal. They just happen to choose a way that will also work on mobile I guess.
Kudos for noticing this extra space which could enhance these kind of modals though.
I don't like everything Gnome has been doing, especially with the lack of customization or the status bar. But Gnome has been my go to for 7+ years and I like where it is going. Extensions are pretty fly too 👌
Sometimes when you get UI experts and users and engineers in the same room they iterate to similar outcomes because its the logical conclusion. Apples design in this case isn't ground breaking or even original.
If multiple species of jumping spider can independently evolve the ability to see red from different branches of their family tree, multiple dev teams can come to the same conclusion about what is more comfortable for reaching with consideration for left and right handed people on various types of screens.
The problem is so scoped these days, its fairly logical for UIs to come to the same outcome.
Well, it's insulting for people to lose their work because someone did a lousy UX job. :)
Cloning macOS should not be views as something "bad" because for what's worth we all know Apple spends a LOT in usability research (they're not as good as they used to be, but still better than the rest).
That's the thing, I've basic design / UX training and all the literature on action buttons with dangerous effects tells you to add a margin. Any design undergraduate should also be able to notice that life saver as well... however the GNOME team totally missed it.
This isn't the first time them failing at basic UX and they don't like when people try to suggest improvements nor when they later on criticize them.
Just because you like apple doens't mean that apple does a perfect job and GNOME should copy it. GNOME does a lot of thing better than apple. And microsoft also does a couple of things better than apple. Apple isn't perfect and microsoft isn't all bad
Yes, so let's copy Apple and keep the few things GNOME does well.
Having used OS X, there is no way they've done usability testing. Doing basically everything is hard on OS X
This is an insane take based on absolutely nothing.