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[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Awaited menu redesign and Minetest will be perfect.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You might be waiting for a few decades. I don't think UI design is what foss is known for (outside of gnome)

What would be cool is of they could make Minetest support third party launchers.

[–] AncientMariner@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not really. A few of their developers have been redeveloping the menus. They redesigned the settings menu and it looks great. They're redesigning the content db pages and home pages. Some designs have been put out and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw something in the next few versions.

Edit: Changes are pretty close now:

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/14510

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

outside of gnome

For being bad I hope, lol.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If there is one think gnome has going for it is careful UI design. They spend years perfecting something.

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They spend years perfecting something.

Perfecting removing basic features like minimize button and forbidding proper theming?

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

But have they made it any better?

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You might be waiting for a few decades.

UI redesign should be coming in 5.10.

I don't think UI design is what foss is known for (outside of gnome)

? There's many more DEs (and not only) with beautiful design. Gnome is not something incredible here. And I can even argue about libadwaita being beautiful.

What would be cool is of they could make Minetest support third party launchers.

Why would you need that? What benefits outside of using other UI framework like GTK it can provide?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

I don't care about it beautiful. I just don't want clutter and confusing UI elements.