I'm really curious what the current definition of "minimalistic" is.
Things like cutting off content that overruns the screen size, without giving any indication that this has happened, and also hiding scrollbars, so as to make it impossible to navigate to that content if you have neither a mousewheel nor a gesture-capable device. -- Not saying that this is what Alexandria is doing; just cracking a joke about modern designs with "minimalist" inclinations in general.
But also, this is Tauri based, so from author's POV, definitely minimal than electronjs right? ;)
• Design: You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds
• Features: Again, fully featured, better than some e-reader hardware
Compared to what is it minimalistic by what metric?
"No skeuomorphic book shelf" seems like a low bar.
>You get a full UI that's no more minimal than the Kindle desktop builds
Those are already minimal. This is too.
If everything is minimalistic, nothing is.
Same way if every new paiting for some reason starts being pointilistic, they don't cease to be pointilistic just because its the absolute norm.
(And even if it was a relative term, we do have experiece with non minimalistic software from the past, so we can still considered a current crop of software were everything is much more sparse and streamlined as "minimalistic" compared to that).
In any case, we're not talking about everything, just these two and any other that fits the description.