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[–] 10 points 6 months ago
[–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sh#t, I hope it won't be forced on us and remains as a toggle, but knowing Google I can't have too much hope.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Loads of apps have toggles for enabling/disabling Material Design (and now Expressive too on newer apps), so hopefully something similar is done with the rainbow glass effect? Because then you could use a custom launcher to avoid the new design language, as you still can from Material Design.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago*

    Can't wait for them to update 20% of their apps with it.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I was a fan of this style when Vista did it. I was a fan when Apple did it, I'm a fan of it now. Give me blurry glass everywhere pls.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You voiced your opinion, which adds original, human made content and promotes social interaction on the platform. The fact that someone downvoted you really grinds my gears. Downvoting buries content, it makes it irrelevant and undervalued.

    Lurkers too lazy to post a comment and instead using "downvote" as a "disagree" button should stop doing that and actually compensate for the bandwidth they consume on the platform with their comment, whatever it is, as long as it is respectful and constructive.

    Also: I like liquid glass but I think it should be more moderately used. I think sometimes where it is overused it can be bad for legibility and usability.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I don't get what the big deal is about a theme.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago*

    Oh I'll answer this it's because they decimated the modding scene. Literally any and all of the fancy features and little niceties ended up coming from Little mods from the mod scene and we're not doing that anymore so.... How do you be innovative when the people you were stealing the innovations from stop innovating because you actively saught to prevent them from innovating.

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    If many devs would switch to it just as they did with M3 Expressive, I'm gonna quit Android and go touch some grass instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Why didn't we just keep the old 3D style HUH? NOBODY ASKED FOR MATERIAL AND NOBODY WAJTS IT

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Nooo I like the cute green guy

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago

    FUCKING FINALLY

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