[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Using "fusion" style on OsX by default

[Aron Helser]

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.

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.

What I see - switching to the older buttons with drop shadows that mimic a
'physical' button makes the UI look it's age.

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.

Regards,
Aron

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I don't think we need another option for changing this.
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
> utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> Cool. Let's sleep on it for a day or two and if no new objections
>> surface, we can choose to make the change. We can of course have an
>> option to change it back in Settings too, but feel it might be an
>> overkill since who'd actually change it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov>
>> wrote:
>> > I agree that I like the fusion style better for the same reason as
>> Alan. In
>> > fact, I remember complaining several years ago about how much space was
>> > introduced into the GUI during some library update or another.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > My only reservation is that the tighter style might be more off-putting
>> to
>> > new users (exaggerates the airplane-cockpit syndrome). However, the
>> current
>> > GUI for the Windows executable looks just as tight, and that does not
>> seem
>> > to be an issue. (According to download counts, windows users outnumber
>> Mac
>> > and Linux by a large margin.)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -Ken
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: Paraview-developers [mailto:paraview-developers-bo
>> unces at paraview.org]
>> > On Behalf Of Scott, W Alan
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:06 AM
>> > To: Bauer, Andy (External Contacts) <andy.bauer at kitware.com>; Ayachit,
>> > Utkarsh (External Contacts) <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>> > Cc: ParaView Developers <paraview-developers at paraview.org>
>> > Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: Using "fusion" style
>> on
>> > OsX by default
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Assuming fusion is on the right side, I also like that better.  What is
>> > important is that the fonts aren’t decreasing in size.  Ditto the
>> icons.  We
>> > are just tightening up empty space.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > My $0.02
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Alan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: Paraview-developers [mailto:paraview-developers-bo
>> unces at paraview.org]
>> > On Behalf Of Andy Bauer
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 7:45 AM
>> > To: Ayachit, Utkarsh (External Contacts) <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
>> > Cc: ParaView Developers <paraview-developers at paraview.org>
>> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] Using "fusion" style on
>> OsX by
>> > default
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I like the Fusion style a bit better. I think it would be a good idea
>> to get
>> > input from somebody with poor vision.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>> > <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I wanted to see what people thought about using the "fusion" style
>> (same in
>> > Linux) on OsX instead of the current OsX style used by Qt. Attached are
>> > screenshots compare the two styles on a Mac.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > As you can see, "fusion" is more compact with more well aligned
>> widgets. The
>> > Properties panel on both has been resized horizontally so that it is as
>> > minimum size possible before a horizontal scrollbar shows up. Note how
>> wide
>> > it has to be with macOS style as against Fusion.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Utkarsh
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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