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> something what the eye pleases Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. People tend to like the fact that all shapes and UI controls were clearly defined and ve
by phoe-krk 4y ago
> something what the eye pleases
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. People tend to like the fact that all shapes and UI controls were clearly defined and very easy to tell apart from one another, plus there is a giant nostalgia factor in play. See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/windows98/comments/ktz5v3/just_made_windows_10_look_like_windows_98/ https://www.reddit.com/r/windows98/comments/ktz5v3/just_made... for an example of this behavior.
- frankzander 4y agook good points ... I expected that. Yes beauty is in the eye of the beholder IMHO this counts only for a limited scope. Discussing this further would lead into a philosophical debate. What I never got into my mind is "nostalgia". Nostalgia isn't worth of nothing for me. I tried but can't understand why this is for somebody anything worth because in my eyes it's like hold tight to something obsolete.
- badsectoracula 4y ago> Yes beauty is in the eye of the beholder IMHO this counts only for a limited scope. And that scope is arbitrary and each person has their own threshold, so we go back to "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" :-P. I didn't grew up or have any sort of nostalgia for CDE/Motif myself but i think it looks fine. I prefer Window Maker / NeXTStep myself though.
- tsuru 4y agoI'm definitely in that camp. 4Dwm was nice back in the day. I never got the appeal of CDE back then. That said, after looking at old screenshots, I definitely prefer anti-aliased fonts.