• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    This sort of attitude is completely new to me and so awesome. Like I can just contribute to software? 🤯

    I have choice words for the UI/UX of most Matrix clients. And they’re open source!

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      1 year ago

      Good. Those things need work.

      But expect a lot of your complaints to fall on deaf ears unless you’re willing to do the work yourself.

      A lot of people in the open source ecosystem really don’t understand good design.

      VLC, however, is one that does.

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        1 year ago

        I really like design! Little buttons and colors and all those bits of tweaking. I’ve been looking more at projects on Lemmy to see how their UIs are coded, but I think the tools and frameworks all sorta run back to HTML/CSS/JavaScript so like if I learned that then I’d understand how to use Qt, PyQt, or Kotlin. Idk. I think designers tend to contract themselves to capital so the idea of an open source UI developer sounds goofy, but fun.