[HN Gopher] Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux w... ___________________________________________________________________ Pangolin desktop environment for Fuchsia and Linux written in Flutter Author : kaladin-jasnah Score : 22 points Date : 2022-02-24 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | gigglesupstairs wrote: | Design language looks very similar to Windows 11? Not sure if it | was intentional since it must have been in development for a | while. Anyways, it's a very elegant looking environment. | kaladin-jasnah wrote: | I'll agree--it's elegant. The animations are a bit "Flutter-y" | and I'm not a fan of Flutter animations in general, but it does | look quite nice: https://web.dahliaos.io/. | amanzi wrote: | Feels like Android to me. | bityard wrote: | I thought it looked more like a random mashup of iOS, Android, | and Chrome OS. | forgotpwd16 wrote: | Discussion from 10 months ago: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26842859 | | Performance still bad for me. | ducktective wrote: | could have chosen a better name considering the recent events and | rumors... | ComputerGuru wrote: | This takes too many design cues from so-called "modern" web and | mobile apps. What's with the lack of scrollbars in all the | windows/dialogs? I can't tell that content has been truncated | when a dialog opens up with the overflow ending on whitespace | between two elements. There's also no fade or shadows, so | everything is just suddenly cropped where a window ends. It's not | even clear which elements have their own viewports and which are | scrolled together (so I missed extra elements in the settings | toolbar/toolbox on the left). All the windows open up very small | (too small to fit their content) even though there's room for | bigger. | | (All tested on the online demo here: https://web.dahliaos.io/#/ ) | bityard wrote: | Well they did get at least one thing right: actual discreet | window title bars with usable controls. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-24 23:00 UTC)