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Show HN: A Windows 7 web desktop recreation
- tomc1985 5y agoSomewhat disappointed that opening a new virtual machine inside the virtual machine app fails to work. In all honesty, great job!
- huntermeyer 5y agoAwesome! I think the icons should "snap" to a grid in traditional Windows fashion (unless I'm mistaken). Your design behaves more like MacOS where you can drop icons anywhere.
- livre 5y ago> I think the icons should "snap" to a grid in traditional Windows fashion (unless I'm mistaken). It was the default in later Windows like 7 but I remember I could drag them anywhere on Windows 98 and if I wanted them aligned on a grid I had to use an option in the context menu (that was a one time option that would align them, if I dragged another icon it wouldn't auto align to grid until I clicked that option again).
- 2bitencryption 5y agoUnfortunately it doesn't recreate the lovely behavior where selecting multiple desktop icons massively reduces the selection box framerate :D
- starik36 5y agoVery nice and snappy! Very cool github1s integration.
- reputet 5y agoIt looks nice! And I like the apps you've chosen to put there, especially, Minecraft and Minesweeper. From the UX perspective, I'm used to opening the icons by a double click. I think it is what most of users are familiar with.
- luke2m 5y agohttps://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops for more of these.
- FreakyT 5y agoA bit disappointing it doesn't mimic any of the glass-motion effects that Win7 had. I really like the colored glass hover effect that they used for running applications in the taskbar. (And let's not forget the way the "shine" on the windows moved while you dragged a window.)
- kazinator 5y agoBut even the equalizer in Winamp works!
- frosted-flakes 5y agoI get a deep sense of nostalgia for Windows 7's glass theme whenever I see a screenshot of it. It just looked so good, and polished. Plus, the fat window borders with consistent title bars made everything so much more obvious. Today, one window blends into the next and every window has a different colour title bar, which can be incredibly confusing sometimes.
- bgdkbtv 5y agoDid anyone manage to find the secret folder? Opening "Homework" folder tells you to move it a certain way to reveal the secret... I'm curios to see what the secret folder is
- trungdq88 5y agoShameless plug, check out mine :) https://tdinh.me https://tdinh.me
- sydbarrett74 5y agoThumbs-up to yours as well. :)
- besnn00 5y agolove that you put cs1.6 there and made it openable
- initramfs 5y agogo for the windows, stay for the winamp visualizer.
- beprogrammed 5y agoFun, good job. https://www.windows93.net https://www.windows93.net is a great one as well.
- smusamashah 5y agoMore https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops
- spijdar 5y agoIt's been a cool minute since I've used either, but isn't this based on Windows Vista and not 7? Vista went much more all out on the aero effects and had the start menu button that "popped" out of the task bar, unlike 7.
- RicardoLuis0 5y agothe windows 7 start button still "pops" out of the taskbar if you're using the taskbar in small mode
- eyelidlessness 5y agoVery cool execution, surprising how much works on my phone. Not a complaint, just a weird pedantic nitpick: minesweeper is supposed to move the mine to the first available top left spot if you click it on your first click. I don’t want to push more winmine.exe consistency than that, but it would be a good quality of life improvement.
- sameer_hacker 5y agoIts amazing! Must be a lot of work.
- sydbarrett74 5y agoVery cool project. :)
- amatecha 5y agoWin 7 > Win 10