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> Ultra dark gray and ugly aesthetics > A GUI can follow 1995 principles without being an oppressive grey and ugly icons > Compare the quality and thought giv

> Ultra dark gray and ugly aesthetics > A GUI can follow 1995 principles without being an oppressive grey and ugly icons > Compare the quality and thought given to Windows 98 dialogs and windows compared to this GNU software in 2021. The NeXTSEP/GNUstep look is a little older than Windows 98, and I agree is a little less clean looking than Windows 98, but it's in no way ugly or oppressive. In fact it was a refreshing and highly acclaimed design at the time, and IMHO it still holds up pretty well three decades later.

lproven 5y ago
> The NeXTSEP/GNUstep look is a little older than Windows 98 A full decade older. NeXTstep was demonstrated in 1987 and launched with the NeXT Cube in 1988 with v1.0 being released in 1989. I mean, come on -- look at it next to its contemporaries: https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/05/gui/6/ https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/05/gui/6/ Windows 2.0, OS/2 1.1, DR-GEM. I really feel that even if someone doesn't like the grey-and-black look (I love it myself) that one _must_ admit it was streets ahead of its contemporaries. Personally I think W95 looked better than W98, and W98 looked better than XP.