Hacker News Reader

Developers adopting mobile toolkits (libadwaita) for desktop apps are degrading the Linux experience

- less information density

- wasted space

- phone tier UX

- optimized for touch screens

- lacks depth

Lazy convergence that ignores how people actually use desktops

I haven't used the app yet, but from the screenshots it appears to follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines [1].

You may disagree with said guidelines, of course, but the author can't reasonably be criticised for following the platform standards.

Try it please. This feels alright on GNOME in terms of visual density.

The rest is subjective. But Adwaita / Gnome is what's on my machine, so I follow their design principles.