> Windows XP looked like a toy Hence it was and still sometimes is being called Fisher-Price. Microsoft had to drastically change their flagship project so it

> Windows XP looked like a toy Hence it was and still sometimes is being called Fisher-Price. Microsoft had to drastically change their flagship project so it would be attractive against OSX. The Whistler's Watercolor theme that existed during beta period was good but wasn't enough for the final release [1][2]. That period was full of candy/toys/glass/acrylic GUIs. Apple had Aqua, and Linux distros had Keramik and Plastik window/widget themes with Crystal icons in KDE. The latter become preserved in the Trinity envirnoment [1] since KDE moved to Plasma in version 4, which looked to me like a Vista's Aero step-sister [3] [1] - https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/images/7/77/Windows_Whistler_2257_Professional_2257Pro1stboot1.png https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/images/7/77/Windows_Whistle... [2] - https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/full/whistler2257-1-1.png https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/full/whistler2... [3] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/KDE_4.0.png/1024px-KDE_4.0.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/KD...