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But isn't it painfully wrong on the title bar size/font, the highlight around icons, etc? If this is the better one, I can't imagine the alternatives... https:

• badsectoracula 5y ago
  The titlebar size is fine, however the title is a pixel off vertically as is the icon too. The biggest issue i can see in the screenshot is the menubar spacing being too large and the scrollbar's top/left bevel lines using the "button shadow" instead of "button" color. In addition the bevel lines use the wrong overlap in the corner. For some reason this is only the case for the first button (up, left) and the second button (bottom, right) looks correct. The icon views (small and large) in lists also use too much spacing around the contents as well as between the icons and the icon captions in the desktop also use too much padding. Finally the window frame seems to also have too much padding between the bevel and the actual window contents (i.e. in the file manager views the outer bevel lines for the tree and icons should align with the titlebar, but here they are pushed a couple of pixels inside). Ah yeah, also the shortcut icon overlay seems too scaled down and blurry for some reason. These are what i noticed from the screenshot. They're fixable for the most part though, i had played around with Chigago95 at the past to make it a bit more faithful. The biggest effort was modifying Gtk's theme engine to remove the outline from the menu bar :-P. And TBH i think that for pixel perfect accuracy you'd need to modify some code, which goes a bit outside the scope of a theme.
• lproven 5y ago
  Exactly. Nearly but not quite right. I am in no way nostalgic for 1990s OSes -- I remember the pain too vividly -- but I think this look would be like a hangnail or a toothache: just wrong enough to be constantly irritating. Now, 1980s OSes, when stuff was still a challenge, now that was fun. :-D