<div dir="ltr">I'd like to bring up that this change is going against current design trends - i.e. towards 'flat' designs, with cleaner, less cluttered UI elements.<div><br></div><div>It's why things take up more space. Utkarsh, I'd encourage you to run those screenshots by our website designer, and see what reaction you get.</div><div><br></div><div>What I see - switching to the older buttons with drop shadows that mimic a 'physical' button makes the UI look it's age.</div><div><br></div><div>That being said, as a engineer I really don't mind what it looks like as long as I can get it to do what I want, so I can see why you are interested in the change.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Aron</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Andy Bauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy.bauer@kitware.com" target="_blank">andy.bauer@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yeah, I don't think we need another option for changing this.</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com" target="_blank">utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Cool. Let's sleep on it for a day or two and if no new objections<br>
surface, we can choose to make the change. We can of course have an<br>
option to change it back in Settings too, but feel it might be an<br>
overkill since who'd actually change it.<br>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <<a href="mailto:kmorel@sandia.gov" target="_blank">kmorel@sandia.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
> I agree that I like the fusion style better for the same reason as Alan. In<br>
> fact, I remember complaining several years ago about how much space was<br>
> introduced into the GUI during some library update or another.<br>
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> My only reservation is that the tighter style might be more off-putting to<br>
> new users (exaggerates the airplane-cockpit syndrome). However, the current<br>
> GUI for the Windows executable looks just as tight, and that does not seem<br>
> to be an issue. (According to download counts, windows users outnumber Mac<br>
> and Linux by a large margin.)<br>
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> -Ken<br>
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> From: Paraview-developers [mailto:<a href="mailto:paraview-developers-bounces@paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview-developers-bo<wbr>unces@paraview.org</a>]<br>
> On Behalf Of Scott, W Alan<br>
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:06 AM<br>
> To: Bauer, Andy (External Contacts) <<a href="mailto:andy.bauer@kitware.com" target="_blank">andy.bauer@kitware.com</a>>; Ayachit,<br>
> Utkarsh (External Contacts) <<a href="mailto:utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com" target="_blank">utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com</a>><br>
> Cc: ParaView Developers <<a href="mailto:paraview-developers@paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview-developers@paraview.<wbr>org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Using "fusion" style on<br>
> OsX by default<br>
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><br>
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> Assuming fusion is on the right side, I also like that better. What is<br>
> important is that the fonts aren’t decreasing in size. Ditto the icons. We<br>
> are just tightening up empty space.<br>
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> My $0.02<br>
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> Alan<br>
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> From: Paraview-developers [mailto:<a href="mailto:paraview-developers-bounces@paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview-developers-bo<wbr>unces@paraview.org</a>]<br>
> On Behalf Of Andy Bauer<br>
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 7:45 AM<br>
> To: Ayachit, Utkarsh (External Contacts) <<a href="mailto:utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com" target="_blank">utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com</a>><br>
> Cc: ParaView Developers <<a href="mailto:paraview-developers@paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview-developers@paraview.<wbr>org</a>><br>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] Using "fusion" style on OsX by<br>
> default<br>
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><br>
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> I like the Fusion style a bit better. I think it would be a good idea to get<br>
> input from somebody with poor vision.<br>
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> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit<br>
> <<a href="mailto:utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com" target="_blank">utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Folks,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> I wanted to see what people thought about using the "fusion" style (same in<br>
> Linux) on OsX instead of the current OsX style used by Qt. Attached are<br>
> screenshots compare the two styles on a Mac.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> As you can see, "fusion" is more compact with more well aligned widgets. The<br>
> Properties panel on both has been resized horizontally so that it is as<br>
> minimum size possible before a horizontal scrollbar shows up. Note how wide<br>
> it has to be with macOS style as against Fusion.<br>
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> Utkarsh<br>
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