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That style is a bit too brutalist for my tastes. I prefer a splash of color, like with BeOS or something like that.
by MetaWhirledPeas 5y ago
That style is a bit too brutalist for my tastes. I prefer a splash of color, like with BeOS or something like that.
- slver 5y agoWindows did have color accents, like the dark blue selection, it's just a bit muted and stale by modern standards. It's a good idea to keep the chrome be chrome-like so color can be reserved for meaningful elements (like red for warning, green for safe, blue for selection etc.). Notice that although end-user apps are all colorful and fancy these days, that most pro apps have remained very conservative, erring to light or dark gray and using color semantically only (think photoshop, 3dsmax, autocad etc.). This tells us something.
- Aeolun 5y agoExcept programming apps and IDE’s?
- nine_k 5y agoThese use color syntactically.
- tompazourek 5y agoNot just syntactically, e.g. the default Visual Studio theme is all blue (menus, buttons, etc.)
- slver 5y agoMost IDEs are gray. Microsoft is trying to be quirky, same with Office, and I don’t know how well it’s working.
- jagger27 5y agoCheck out the included themes! There are throwback themes for various 90s operating systems.
- johnwyles 5y agoYa'll remember Enlightenment? That was my jam.