Seeing lots of people argue about NeXTStep on a recent submission, made me think about using a little known feature of HN - A Poll! Pick your answer (by voting it up):
It's deeper than yes/no for me because of course I was immediately jealous of those huge icons, at the superficial level. But at the same time IIRC the UI toolkit ergonomics also seemed to lag contemporary Windows by a bit in some ways. Could be wrong, as its been a while. (Was it that you could drag a Windows window and see full contents, not just the window outline, by that time? There were little differences like that which added up)
I felt the same about the hot new SGI machines that showed up at my university, and the Irix desktop which had its nice points but also some strange cons for a high end workstation, compared to Windows.
I eventually got the icons to my desktop via Dyne:Bolic and OpenStep, which was fun to explore. Wish I would've explored the API a bit.
But yeah, went with beautiful in the poll anyway. The default toolkit layouts do a really respectable job with white space (compare to Tk of the time) and the icon/tile gradients stay on the attractive side of the contrast issues that happened a lot with early icon design. It's still beautiful in that way for sure, if we are going with that word :D
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 20.2 ms ] threadI felt the same about the hot new SGI machines that showed up at my university, and the Irix desktop which had its nice points but also some strange cons for a high end workstation, compared to Windows.
I eventually got the icons to my desktop via Dyne:Bolic and OpenStep, which was fun to explore. Wish I would've explored the API a bit.
But yeah, went with beautiful in the poll anyway. The default toolkit layouts do a really respectable job with white space (compare to Tk of the time) and the icon/tile gradients stay on the attractive side of the contrast issues that happened a lot with early icon design. It's still beautiful in that way for sure, if we are going with that word :D