Very nice. Someone needs to do Windows 3.1 :)
I'd support this.
https://github.com/jcs/progman
Someone already has.
Make Linux look like Windows 95
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Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#112Can anyone think of a reason why to do this? Apart from personal fun project, of course!
I haven't tried this one, but I will. My reason is that I quit Linux because they took away the two pane, file tree in the left, file explorer from me.
I was using lxde and suddenly they decided to "redesign" the explorer (more like redoing it from scratch) and the new one had not the file tree pane. I was using lxde because I didn't like Plasma, another imposed "redesign". Now that was the last straw.
15 or 20 years ago... I can't understand why people think it's OK to shit on my muscle memory and habits.
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#113Sadly 99% of these modifications are surface level and don't go far enough in terms of actual usability. It's always the little things that break the spell, stuff like being able to open tree views using the keyboard.
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#114I have used themes like this on Linux and also some to make it look like MacOS. What I really want on Linux are tools that are written to be exactly like Windows, no more no less. Why? Well in addition to the numerous OS related problems I seem to encounter every time I go back and do a clean install of a distro like Ubuntu I am also annoyed by how poorly designed many of the basic tools like the calculator is. The W…
From a typical "forum dweller" this seems like an argument to familiarity not quality.
Lets give an example what does Krita call itself? It says
> Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
concept art
texture and matte painters
illustrations and comics
Gimp looks more favorable. It is comparatively slow to start 3.7 seconds here. Lets look how challenging it is to make that work. Well there is a crop tool on the main tool box. Mousing over it helpfully notes you can press Shift+c if you want to do it slightly easier. If you don't like the split between export and save and just want it to save and shut up I recommend an addon called save-export-clean and a handy binding in my case just alt+x.
If you find yourself creating a series of screenshots for example for an article or howto or some such instead of taking a screenshot, then opening it in gimp you can from gimp take a screenshot of a window, part of a window, or the entire screen and immediately edit it in gimp. Seems this is pretty suitable.
Maybe you don't actually need any of the things gimp does? Well Kolourpaint is basically a better mspaint and opens in 400ms. It has an obvious selection tool. Select what you like and hit control+t to crop to selection. Control+s to save and your done.
Maybe there is a way to do this with less steps yet? Enter flameshot. Click an icon or hit printscreen and click and drag what you would like to screenshot to the correct size. While you are at it You can do light annotations and optionally open it in an actual editor. You can even with a button share it to imgur if you just want a quick way to show someone something. Want the old behavior of just hitting printscreen saving the screen contents to clipboard no problem bind flameshot full -c
Want the full windows experience bind flameshot full -c to print and open up kolourpaint and hit control+v
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#115Can anyone think of a reason why to do this? Apart from personal fun project, of course!
I haven't tried this one, but I will. My reason is that I quit Linux because they took away the two pane, file tree in the left, file explorer from me. I was using lxde and suddenly they decided to "redesign" the explorer (more like redoing it from scratch) and the new one had not the file tree pane. I was using lxde because I didn't like Plasma, another imposed "redesign". Now that was the last straw. 15 or 20 years…
Some people don't understand the time value of habits. Makes me angry.
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#116This with WINE is what I think is the perfect combination of GUI and CLI... but as a long-time Windows user, several things stood out and made it look slightly off: the menu bar and padding around the icon labels is too tall the window borders are slightly too wide (compared to the default) scrollbar buttons shouldn't disable at end of travel sort direction indicator in header control (which first appeared in Win2k)…
Not to mention the fonts.
That's no MS Sans Serif...
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#117This looks so nice. Nostalgia indeed, but I miss consistent UIs across apps. SerenityOS must be mentioned in this context too: Win95-like UI on a Unix-like OS. Check it out if you haven’t yet! Edited to add the link I missed: https://serenityos.org/
Wow... just, wow! It's really not just GUI, but an OS!
You should come here more often :) there are lots of wonderful discussions, in recent past even, on SerenityOS.
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#118I can't express how excited I am for consistent and metaphorical UI to be rediscovered by the 'designers' of today.
Wait, you simply let users know what's a button by the visual decorations and differentiated edges? And you let them know the status of toggle buttons without forcing them to toggle multiple times and guess based on which colors what might mean what? Blasphemy! Next you'll be letting web pages readers know what is and is not a link by using a consistent underline scheme. Which would be a completely unacceptable level…
Remember when buttons, when pressed, looked pressed? I remember!
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because we hit peak desktop right around Windows 2000. Just about everything since then has been a step backwards in speed and usability. The Mac Finder is a hot mess and seems to get worse with every release. The 964 different desktops available for Linux are in general a hodgepodge of slow impossible-to-use disasters. A notable exception is XFCE but it's a bit of a second-class citizen and even things in XFCE don't…
No. I love my 2022 Gnome look and looking at old Windows UI makes me nauseous. I'm over 40 so yes, I did use Windows extensively and hate everything about its UI maybe with the exception of Windows XP. I never had any issues recognising what is a button and what isn't with Gnome. Never understood HN's fetish for these old UIs.
>I never had any issues recognising what is a button and what isn't with Gnome
That's easy to say when there's only a single hamburger button...
All kidding aside, this scourge has made its way to Windows. One of the new anti-features in Windows 11 is the truncated (right click) context menus. Where most options are now hidden under a 'show more options' entry, requiring a separate mouse click.
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#120https://archive.org/details/winfiles_cmfriend_202005
Ah, so that is what the semi-popular cyan-greyish colour theme is. Random encounter: http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/tabs.htm> I've been looking for the origin for twenty years.