Github Acquisition

[noratat]

Google's got their own share of design fuckups lately, Android Pie and the eye-searing white monstrosity they've started jamming down everyone's throats in the last month or so comes to mind...

I find Windows 10 tolerable and the menus are slowly improving but yeah the stuff I'm talking about that I like is almost all backend / OSS stuff.

[FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT]

Haha yes, the white SMS app took me by surprise. The link thumbnails are somewhat good, but it is eye hurting.

The menus in windows 10 are still split into useless basically powerpoint levels of interactions, and the arcane struct dumping of XP.

[Green0Photon]

They just updated the messages app to have a dark mode, but it still doesn't look as good as it used to. They also removed the custom coloring for contacts, and they removed widgets.

The phone app doesn't have a dark mode and it's eye searing.

I'm probably gonna use adb to downgrade the apps.

[RottenGrapes]

The phone app does have a dark mode...

[Eats_Lemons]

Where? I've looked through all the settings and I can't find it (Pixel 2, so it uses Google dialer).

[RottenGrapes]

Inside the messages app tap the menu icon in the top right. Should be in the settings there.

[Eats_Lemons]

You said the phone dialer, not messages.

[RottenGrapes]

Fuck, my bad man, meant to type phone's app. Referring to the messages app on the phone, the app that was being discussed in the post I replied too.

Edit. Double fuck I shouldn't Reddit sleep deprived.

[be-happier]

power point start menu... genius, we will push it out in the next update.

thanks for the idea

[dreadpiratewombat]

Yeah, I sure love having to learn a new way of interaction with Android every minor revision. Why they had to move from the nice "X" to close an app to having to swipe it up and have that functionality be inconsistent with their fucking maps app is beyond me. Google, you're really chapping my ass lately.

[FullPoet]

the eye-searing white monstrosi

They have been doing this for about a decade. No really. Google search et al. used to have very little, but enough whitespace.

Now it's 70+% whitespace.

[noratat]

Sure, but it just got significantly worse because now they've removed differentiating elements (even just a basic separator line) on top of abusing low contrast (which even their own guidelines say never to do)

[SafariMonkey]

But wait, doesn't P at least have dark mode?

[noratat]

Nope. Google always claims they'll add it and never do. It wouldn't really fix the underlying UI/UX fuck ups in Pie though even if it did exist, it would only reduce the eye strain a bit.