Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
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#2Some people still enjoy « ricing » their desktop, especially the Linux desktop, from the wallpaper to their editor syntax highlighting scheme. It can even be automated. Bike shedding ninja level.
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#4Generally I agree with the article, but it would be nice for the author to enable dark mode of the website for dark mode users :)
(it's possible in CSS to detect if the user is using dark mode, and adjust the colors automatically)
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#5> Remember changing colours on the computer?
You can do that in Windows 10. It can also change automatically based on your current wallpaper.
Similarly to installing Nova Launcher, perhaps the author need to use GNU/Linux or Windows instead of a Mac.
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#6I was just twiddling my GTK theme for the first time since the 90s the other day. I guess my tweaker gene got activated again. It is really fun though, and getting even more dark mode was worth it!
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#7Generally I agree with the article, but it would be nice for the author to enable dark mode of the website for dark mode users :) (it's possible in CSS to detect if the user is using dark mode, and adjust the colors automatically)
That's not a commonly known or used trick.
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#8The question is: can we design deep configurability (and composeability), and hence put more accessible creative power in the hands of the user (instead of say having to edit obscure configuration files or even worse, do a full recompile, or simply have no choice at all), without exploding complexity of the system or is this fundamentally mutually exclusive?
Power + complexity will only ever remain niche. But if we can design a system (be it a single program or an entire machine with OS), that is both powerful but intuitive to use, even down to deep layers, then we could actually empower 'end' users into becoming authors of 'creative computing'.
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#9> Remember changing colours on the computer? You can do that in Windows 10. It can also change automatically based on your current wallpaper. Similarly to installing Nova Launcher, perhaps the author need to use GNU/Linux or Windows instead of a Mac.
Windows 10 has themes now too
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#10I remember before OS X on the Mac, one of the fun things to do was trade sound effects for system actions, like the Enterprise door swoosh for window actions, and so on. Then Apple took the fun away, because Jobs didn't like fun.