Okay, often times, these âemployer gimmicksâ are just silly, but this one did make me laugh:
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I was drafting support for showing âapplication iconsâ in my window manager, i.e. the Firefox icon in the titlebar:
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org True, at least old versions of KDE had icons:
https://movq.de/v/0e4af6fea1/s.png
GNOME, on the other hand, didnât, at least to my old screenshots from 2007:
https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2007%2D05%2D25%2D%2Dgnome2%2Dlaptop.png
I switched to Linux in 2007 and no window manager I used since then had icons, apparently. Crazy. An icon-less existence for 18 years. (But yeah, everything is keyboard-driven here as well and there are no buttons here, either.)
Anyway, my draft is making progress:
https://movq.de/v/5b7767f245/s.png
I do like this look. đ
We really are bouncing back and forth between flat UIs and beveled UIs. I mean, this is what old X11 programs looked like:
https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2025%2D06%2D21%2D%2Dkatriawm%2Dold%2Dxorg%2Dapps.png
Good luck figuring out which of these UI elements are click-able â unless you examine every pixel on the screen.
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Once or twice a year, I make an effort to switch from dark mode / black terminals to light mode again.
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Iâm keeping this color scheme on my laptop for now:
raymarching soft shadows in 2d: [[https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/]] #links #graphics #2d #raymarching
2d Markov ¡ Issue #125 ¡ NaNoGenMo/2017 ¡ GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/125