Sam Hewitt

@snwh
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Making Free Software more usable. Designer @Gnome (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈
Websitehttps://samuelhewitt.com/
My attention to detail for icons is at the subpixel level. It may only count for a few fractions of a pixel, but it's a few fractions of a pixel more legible. (Left: new, right:old)

The overuse of hamburger menus (or overflow menus) is still the worst and Firefox has essentially two (three if you count the overflow menu in the URL bar). Two vague icons in the toolbar that both serve as to represent menus that are catch-alls for a bunch of things.

How everyone got away with the hamburger is beyond me. It's not simplification of the UI it's complication. Simplification would be paring down unnecessary function so you have no need for overflow menus.

I stagger the screen positions of dual-monitor setup in GNOME so I can trigger the Shell hotcorner on both displays. 🤓

(It's also nice because my monitors are at different heights irl)

on reddit for the good posts 👌
I've definitely had that thought before because I dug up an old mockup:
well now, firmware updates to my laptop via GNOME software (and fwupd) are very nice