Thom :linux: :a_openbsd: on Nostr: To illustrate just how utterly boneheaded #GNOME UI design has become, I present you ...
To illustrate just how utterly boneheaded #GNOME UI design has become, I present you with Geary.<li>This is the minimum size of the window. If I make it <em>any</em> narrower, the email portion will disappear and the email list will expand to cover the entire area.</li><li>But! You say, you can use the column dividers, to resize the individual columns, right? Nope, the GNOME/Geary people think you should <a href="
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues/1029"; target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">not</a> be able to resize the columns manually like you could before. No explanation, just fuck you.</li><li>So. Much. Whitespace. The amount of whitespace wasted in Geary is absolutely batshit insane. This window could present the same amount of information while taking up half the screenspace and still be 100% clear and usable.</li><li>Related to 3, no options to change density or other options to reduce this whitespace hellscape.</li>
This one fucking email client takes up nearly my *entire* 2x 4K display. I can't believe we let these people define the 'default' Linux desktop and let them get away with it.
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