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« on: 26 September 2003, 17:52 »
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« Reply #1 on: 26 September 2003, 17:57 »
Wow!  Its STILL Ugly!  :D
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« Reply #2 on: 26 September 2003, 18:06 »
Bah. Still as horrendous as the last time I tried it.

I heard that it was supposed to be released in 2004, then 2005. Now it's delayed to 2006...
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« Reply #3 on: 26 September 2003, 19:25 »
Look at this one. Windows got "kill" too. I suspect people are going to mark that as another Microsoft innovation. The same when Microsoft ripped off task grouping from KDE.

Anyway, the Aero theme was much better, but now they made it look like dogshit again.
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« Reply #4 on: 26 September 2003, 19:53 »
Aero theme? I only say the plex theme. Got any screenshots of the Aero theme?
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« Reply #5 on: 26 September 2003, 20:32 »
Ha! I liked the "Go away! This will take ten minunites!" meaning"Go away! We don't wan't you to see us fucking your system!
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« Reply #6 on: 26 September 2003, 20:39 »
Boy! now you have to buy a larger screen?

[ September 26, 2003: Message edited by: The all Canadian Lover ]

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« Reply #7 on: 26 September 2003, 20:51 »
What a whole load of wank. I finally found out why too much blue is a bad thing, actually too much of any colour on screen is a bad thing.

An excess of blue on screen will actually after staring at it for a few hours tinge your vision orange. Great move M$.

Do M$ actually think they produce good UI design??? It's truly awful. I'm sorry anyone who thinks otherwise, well that's your prerogative but you're wrong.
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« Reply #8 on: 26 September 2003, 23:50 »
they didn't "make it ugly again"

those screenshots predate Aero. That's right before they dropped Plex and the GDI desktop compositor for their new engine.

The reason it's so ugly is they've got two generations of tech there. The big toolbar at the top with the title in it, is the thick toolbar you see inthe Aero screenshots, and right below it, is the classic Explorer toolbar.

As for the poor quality of the appearance theme, once the new renderer is active (as it is in all those Aero screenies) you've got a whole new world. It's like the difference in X11 (old hat, 2D, bitmapped) and Quartz (next-gen, OpenGL accelerated, PDF vector based).

it's something that Linux dudes should think about... why keep dicking around with tired old X11 when EVERYBODY ELSE is going to vector-based high-quality desktops?

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« Reply #9 on: 27 September 2003, 00:37 »
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Originally posted by Zardoz:
An excess of blue on screen will actually after staring at it for a few hours tinge your vision orange. Great move M$.


So that's thier new plan. Turn everyones vision orange, and then they'll rule the world. Bill gates really is an evil genius!  :eek:
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« Reply #10 on: 27 September 2003, 08:45 »
o my fucking gosh... they only added pretty sparkely images.. u can do the same thing with skin studio... ect ect... these people are pathetic.
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« Reply #11 on: 27 September 2003, 11:30 »
Shit...
Everything is blue...
 
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Please wait while setup detects your computer's hardware
This can take up to 10 minutes

Shit how long does it take Knoppix to detect hardware, and they loading sand-clock icon is OLD.

OMG and they have a Windows security prompt?! Shit like it'd be loads better   :rolleyes:  
I'm getting insomnia from this shit.  
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« Reply #12 on: 27 September 2003, 12:04 »
it looks like XP with Gizmos...very innovative and original...but hey AC/DC played the exact same kind and type of incredibly similar music for 20 years and they're still cool  ;)
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« Reply #13 on: 17 October 2003, 11:11 »
Can we agree that one of the biggest selling factors of Windows XP was the fruitified desktop (which reminds us all of Barney's Playland), and all those bubbly widgets, which do nothing more than take up space after your used to them?  Seriously, this stuff is not innovative, but looks a lot like several themes ripped straight from freshmeat.net.  I'm sure the rest of longhorn is shit straight from the dog's ass.
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« Reply #14 on: 17 October 2003, 14:15 »
quote:
Zardoz: An excess of blue on screen will actually after staring at it for a few hours tinge your vision orange. Great move M$.


I actually had that problem once. That blue desktop theme looked pretty cool though.
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