Looks good but it's a JavaScript look alike, it's not a real deal.
Windows XP Professional
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Re: Windows XP Professional
#172How can you tell that any Windows or Mac clone UI is a re-implementation? Easy: try to move your mouse diagonally into the Send To menu after letting it pop up. If the send-to menu closes as you mouse over the item into the submenu, it's a clone. If the menu stays up even if you brush over another menu item, it's either real or a Good Clone. :) For the fun history, @DonHopkins had a thread a few years back: https://n…
The "Welcome" text on boot should be "welcome"
Re: Windows XP Professional
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Feels like you just want Cinnamon with maybe 1 or two more polished features?
I daily drive Linux and deeply appreciate the fact that pretty much everything (at least in the DE space) is developed for free by people donating their time - so don't take this the wrong way. ...but I've yet to experience the level of DE stability you get from Windows XP/7 That also applies to Windows 11 (low bar, I know) and MacOS. It is getting much better and that's happening very quickly - but there is always s…
> ...but I've yet to experience the level of DE stability you get from Windows XP/7
Have you used Cinnamon? I used Cinnamon for five years and the only weird quirk is needing to change the keybind for locking the machine (Power key + L defaults to opening some stupid debugger).
Re: Windows XP Professional
#174Win XP remains my favourite OS till date. I was in college and getting hands on a pirated copy back then makes me so nostalgic. There was a cambrian explosion of tools to customize the look and feel. TweakXP pro is the one I remember. All pirated off-course.
Did you have the devils0wn copy though?
FCKGW-RHQQ2... is the first thing that pops into my head upon seeing that name.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you have the devils0wn copy though?
FCKGW-RHQQ2... is the first thing that pops into my head upon seeing that name.
There was a time I had that whole thing memorized - even when I had legitimately obtained licenses it was easier to type that in …
Re: Windows XP Professional
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
How was it better than Win2K?
Better hardware support. Taskbar grouping. ClearType. Remote Desktop. More games ran on it (mostly thanks to higher DirectX version). From developer perspective, XP was the first version of Windows with registration-free COM and side-by-side assemblies, which (if used properly by app devs) fully solved the "DLL hell" problem.
A huge percentage of XP drivers worked just fine in w2k - sometimes you had to edit the ini or inf file or whatever it was.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#177I went through the "Install Windows" option just to hear the Windows XP installation music again. That track is such a vibe, I have loved it since I was a 14 year-old installing a pirated copy of XP in 2001.
An installer having the ability to load drivers and play music was mind blowing
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#178Wow. This is very impressive. It would be trippy if IE can run https://win32.run again.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love reading about old UI interface guidelines, and how much research was done to make it useful to the user. Now it's all about how to make it useful to the company. Anyway, the links in that post have deteriorated. Here's the link to Raymond Chen's blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20190218080905/https://blogs.msd... (shame on MS for redirecting you to another page when showing you a 404, which make it harder to…
There was an economies of scale back then with OS-level UI components. If Microsoft spent money on UX research that improved its UI controls, it would benefit a lot of people. Essentially the cost of that research was bore by all application developers. The problem now? Every company is designing their own UI components. Every company has to bear the cost of UX research individually. It’s a lot of wheel re-inventing.…
Are UI libraries no longer a thing?
Re: Windows XP Professional
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man nothing drives me further up the wall than when a nice progress indicator with discrete segments gets animated with a lazy `to { rotate(360deg); }` etc[1]. It is my molehill to die on [1] https://cdn.dribbble.com/userupload/41647820/file/original-8...
You know talking about progress bars, it takes a lot of confidence to program a linear progress bar. You think you know when loading will be complete and think you know can break down the incremental progress made during loading. Instead we get these spinning wheels that are like "maybe in the future this wheel will stop and we will have a return value." No confidence whatsoever. I know this is true because Apple tri…
> I know this is true because Apple tries to implement progress bars in IOS like real chads.
Back in The Day, Mac OS X Tiger just faked it by measuring how long it took to boot to LoginWindow, writing that number of seconds to a file, and displaying the next boot's progress indicator as a percentage of that time.
Power words: `/usr/libexec/WaitingForLoginWindow` and `/var/db/loginwindow.boottime`
- https://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/04/tiger_details#waitin...
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060427030025/http://www.macosx...
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2005/05/397/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060506092123/http://www.macosx...