Yeah. I still use the classic theme in Windows 7. It's fluff-free. I like that Win 8/10 have gone simpler with the UI theme, but absolutely hate that hidden sidebar thing. Aero on Vista/Win7 is just too gaudy (though better than XP was).
Before you accuse me of being a curmudgeon, know that I love the Ribbon as well. :)
I've always wondered about people that like the old Win2000 or 95 look. And I am hoping you can answer some questions for me.
The actual OS aside, do you prefer the look of Win2000 over the look of Win8?
I get that Win2000 is minimalistic. But it's not too flat that you can't tell what is what. And I like that. But what I hate about it is the colours. Especially the grey, turquoise, and dark blue. They literally nauseate me sometimes. Do you not find the colours off-putting?
In a few years UIs will hopefully start looking like this again, as it's a good balance between the current ultra-flat trend and the previous "gradients and transparency everywhere" of Vista/7. The same sort of cycle appears earlier if you look at Win1.x/2.x(flat) -> 3.x(exaggerated 3D) -> 4.x/9x/2k(more subtle 3D) -> XP(pseudorealistic 3D, bitmapped UI) -> Vista/7(extravagant 3D) -> 8/10(flat). Whether the rest of the software will be less user-hostile, however, is still quite uncertain...
That'd be awesome. Heck after a lot of mobile use recently I've decided I'd be willing to start using a stylus instead of my finger again so that some of those gigantic [ w h i t e s p a c e ] buttons could give way to tight groups of actually helpful buttons.
A bit OOT: During my early days of programming back in high school, I found Visual Basic 5 CCE (http://www.thevbzone.com/vbcce.htm). Having previously used Turbo Pascal, I was quite mesmerized by the UI designer/drag-n-drop. I spent countless of hours making pretty UIs, and I just love clicking buttons (esp. watching the "sunken" effect).
Of course, since I was an idiot, I didn't know that I can't produce .EXE using VB5 CCE.
I know this is probably mostly meant as a joke, but it could be rather useful in business applications. You're able to give the users an interface they recognise and feel safe in.
The use of page-wide nearest-neighbour scaling makes this look horrid on mobile browsers. I'm not sure it's even necessary anyway, treating 9x-style Windows UI as vector looks great.
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The actual OS aside, do you prefer the look of Win2000 over the look of Win8?
I get that Win2000 is minimalistic. But it's not too flat that you can't tell what is what. And I like that. But what I hate about it is the colours. Especially the grey, turquoise, and dark blue. They literally nauseate me sometimes. Do you not find the colours off-putting?
I hate the turquoise. Don't mind the dark blue and grey.
I'd guess similar themes to be available to also KDE, not just Xfce. (Xfce also has modern looking themes, but the default is very dated.)
Maybe if you picked the right browser and set up some user style sheets you could get things just right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM95
Any insight into what was there?
That is the best selector name I have ever seen
Of course, since I was an idiot, I didn't know that I can't produce .EXE using VB5 CCE.
I'd be going for 1997 windows 95 style... make it truly tasteless like their advertising at the time (http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/docs/ms/vbsdoc/tagline.gif) might be fun
On a related note: http://win95.ajf.me/
(And http://cloudnt4.ajf.me/, but the VM isn't running for now)
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