From the readme:
PaperWM is a GNOME Shell extension which provides scrollable tiling of windows and per monitor workspaces. It’s inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers.
I haven’t spent much time with window managers, but I often read or hear about how great they are. I’m going to give PaperWM a try to see if it sticks
➝ Source: github.com
Craig Grannell:
While I’m more writer than designer these days, I was trained in the visual arts. I was always taught that clarity and legibility should be at the forefront of anyone’s mind when designing. Surely, that’s even more the case when creating an operating system for many millions of users. Yet even in Apple’s press release, linked earlier, there are multiple screenshots where key interface components are, at best, very difficult to read. That is the new foundational point for Apple design. And those screenshots will have been designed to show the best of things. […]
Apple is still very often reactive rather than proactive regarding vision accessibility. Even today, there are major problems with the previous versions of its operating systems (one example being the vestibular trigger if you tap-hold the Focus button in Control Centre). One year on, they aren’t fixed. And now we have an entirely new design language that will upend everything and that starts from a place where clarity has been eroded, animations are even more prevalent, and broad accessibility is seemingly an afterthought.
I’m not fond of the transparent design language that Apple is adding to their upcoming release. It makes text significantly more difficult to read in a lot of contexts. As Craig mentions, you can just look at Apple’s own promotional images to find examples of this.
It goes beyond UI decisions like this, though. Over the past few years, I’ve been waiting longer and longer to upgrade the operating system on all of my Apple devices and that trend is likely to continue this year as well.
I wish Apple would get their act together, but they’ve made so many boneheaded decisions over the past decade that my expectation is that things will just keep getting worse. I’ve already nearly eliminated my iPad usage and have moved to Linux on my personal laptop. If the trend continues, will I be using Android in a few years?
➝ Source: reverttosaved.com
I completely agree with Chris on this, changing the tab bar of an application should happen almost never. But I would go even further and advocate that developer’s allow users to edit the contents of their app’s tab bar. That used to be far more common than it is today — at least in my experience — and I think the trend is bad for users. Not everyone uses an app in exactly the same way and users should be empowered to customize the interface to reflect their usage habits.
➝ Source: chrishannah.me
Allen Pike:
So, after ten years, the Home button is going virtual. Our beautiful new 812pt OLED display will have a function area carved out of the bottom, with Home in the middle. There are many things Apple could put on either side of the Home button – Android-like multitasking buttons I suppose – but iOS 11 gives us a giant clue.
He believes that app navigation elements — like “back” and “edit” buttons — will be moved to the bottom of the screen, on each side of the virtual Home Button. I can’t argue with his thesis — this does seem like the kind of change that Apple would make. I guess I’m just not sold on the whole virtual Home Button thing. I’m almost certain that it’s going to happen, but I expect I’m going to be one of those people that sorely miss physical buttons and white space on the front of my device.
