Obtainium Users: What do you think about the new UI?
a month ago by AstroLightz to c/degoogle
Since v1.6, Obtainium has switched to using Material 3 Expressive for its UI.
Personally, I don't like it as it uses up more space to show less information. The old UI (v1.5 and below) had everything visible and was easy to navigate.
But what do you think? Do you like it? What would you want improved or changed?
Unnecessary UI and layout redesigns are one of my biggest pet peeves with software. Just as users get comfortable and build muscle memory, developers push an update that completely scrambles the layout, forcing everyone to re-learn basic workflows.
A recent example is the Samsung built-in photo editor—it used to be simple and efficient, but recent UI updates ruined the experience to the point where I'd rather just export to GIMP.
Software should follow the core Unix philosophy: Do one thing, and do it well ~Doug McIlroy Apple and Google lost the plot on this years ago. When users rely on a product, constant arbitrary layout changes destroy usability. If developers insist on overhaul updates, the absolute bare minimum should be providing clear release notes or documentation explaining the new layout idk just me I guess good app tho.
Is it similar to ObtainX? I've been using that for the past few weeks as a replacement and have really liked it.
I tried obtainx but still got tye se error that it couldn't get the repo. When I added the repo I needed to Fdroid it seemed to work.
I don't know as I've never used ObtainX, but from screenshots I saw its F-Droid page, it looks similar. I wished they kept the previous UI or at least an option to switch back.
Interesting
Build Verification* — cryptographic checks (F-Droid/Izzy reproducible builds and GitHub Release Attestations) flag manipulated binaries before install. ObtainX's own updates carry GitHub attestations too
Although some of the options, as a guess, seem to use AI (?).
Seems like a win though if thw dev can be trusted.
Somewhat but also not. I tried ObtainX when obtainium was still using the old UI and I got along fine on obtainx. Obtainx does use more of the expressive material design language but it makes sense to me
But somehow when obtainium changed to this new UI I just can't get my head around it. So weird.
Change for the sake of change. The new ui seems like a waste of time.
Thats an opinion, not a claim.
Yes an opinion based on nothing but my feels.
I don't hate the new aesthetics! I too preferred the previous design, but this is fine too.
With that said, to illustrate how grateful I am to ImranR98, I'll add this: I'd be using this app of his even if it looked like an old plain text document. 😁
It needs to be fixed. I was literally looking at it last night thinking WTF the top 25% of my screen is being wasted. There's nothing in it. Also clicked the update/install button assuming it would save me needing to manually press update on every app. It wanted to install a bunch of deleted apps that are still in the list. Sure they could improve the visuals and feel but this isn't it.
This is an app i use probably 2 minutes a month. The efficiency of the layout is so not important
I have never really understood it - no matter which version. I just guess and tap somewhere, and then usually I succeed after a while.
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i like the new design. looks nicer
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