I'm an active user of both. To me it's fascinating how this combination is actually more relatable than either of the actual UIs.
Windows start menu bar seems like the simplest conceptual model to understand vs the logical complexity of some apps being pinned and some living on the right side of the dock, in macos.
Same with menus - though menu bars of MacOS are smarter in being always available and more consistent than the chaotic inconsistency of Windows app world, that menu still takes up permanent real estate from my desktop. Which sort of feels like it's permanently taking up my mental space too.
OTOH, macos window decorations also feel like the simplest thing. Relaxing in their almost comic, colorful nature.
As a fellow dual user, I agree with Windows Bar is better than MacOS doc, and vice versa for the menu bars. I wonder if a Macified bar would make it look more consistent.
There's a framework that does that, yeah it's pretty old but not obsolete. I saw it when I there used to exist Delphi for PHP.
Check out the Qooxdoo framework, it allows you to create desktop-like websites, just like you would with Qt. Check out the Window demos and playground.
Wow, that is completely wild. I can't say I've ever been browsing someone's personal site before and suddenly found myself playing Commander Keen then Doom.
Too bad it's so hard to actually play those games on Mac without triggering shortcuts like switching Spaces etc.
Unrelated question - is there any way to have such a background in windows? It's shocking to me that phones have had great animated background for years, but on Windows there doesn't seem to be any way to do it, the last attempt I can think of was the feature in Windows Vista Ultimate, where you could set an .mp4 file as background.
You should be able to do that with Wallpaper Engine[0], though it is paid, and from what I remember, it used to be fairly resource intensive. Hopefully that has changed now.
Well, Windows used to have “Active Desktop” in what, Win95? You could pin animations and such to your desktop but that never really survived past that version. It wasn’t part of OS but an add-on that was somehow part of IE 4.0. Plenty to third-party programs that do similar I think.
Yeah, but I mean specifically like the background on that website - a gpu-accelerated wave animation of polygons. I could do that on my Android phone for years, but it looks like most windows apps for animated background simply play an mp4 file, which is not ideal.
This makes me wonder would it be commercially successful to emulate or deliver OS in the browser over the internet something like Oracle's diskless Network Computer [1] or Desktop as a Service solutions.
I'd like to have some feedback though. Funny the mobile wasn't really there and it doesn't really support it but I liked how it can create various apps based on its framework.
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Same with menus - though menu bars of MacOS are smarter in being always available and more consistent than the chaotic inconsistency of Windows app world, that menu still takes up permanent real estate from my desktop. Which sort of feels like it's permanently taking up my mental space too.
OTOH, macos window decorations also feel like the simplest thing. Relaxing in their almost comic, colorful nature.
https://brawersoftware.com/products/ubar
Check out the Qooxdoo framework, it allows you to create desktop-like websites, just like you would with Qt. Check out the Window demos and playground.
If anyone is interested Webamp is open source and can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
I like how this website works really well with mobile (dragging / switching windows just works). Even the emulator runs on Android.
Too bad it's so hard to actually play those games on Mac without triggering shortcuts like switching Spaces etc.
[0] https://www.wallpaperengine.io/
It costs $4
But commander keen is there, there goes the rest of my Sunday lol
thanks!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
Maybe the world is readier now for something like it.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS
https://deskportal.com/
I'd like to have some feedback though. Funny the mobile wasn't really there and it doesn't really support it but I liked how it can create various apps based on its framework.
One of my favourite bands of this year, and have really cool websites.