I like icons that are efficient, conveying information with a lightweight visual footprint, like the Reinhardt icons, Ĭomputers are a tool, and for a long time hardly anyone really needed that tool. Their colors are too garish, and there is too much detail. In fact it's quite the opposite, they look chintzy and faddish. If I were to try to dissociate these feelings from the style of the icons, I still think they are not timeless. Furthermore Windows always seemed to me slow, flaky, clunky, bloated, and corrupt in all senses of the word.
I had to use Windows many times, but it was always forced upon me, which does not help engender warm feelings. Instead I was a Mac user in the 80s and 90s, then switched to Linux. This is because no Windows version was ever my computer as a child, when the nostalgia pixie dust is trapped in your heart. Windows XP repels me, as does any other version of Windows, even Windows 10, though it is nearer my taste. For me, the original Macintosh icons seem timeless. I think it's because you grew up with it. > does anyone else think the XP design is timeless? Maybe it's because I grew up with it Even as some criticized already that these icons look similar to Google's in mockups presented on video, I think such change will do some good to all that Metro's silhouettes.Īs for last thing: there were attempts of porting OSX Aqua onto Windows in various Visual Styles, resources packages which obviously look ridiculous even WindowsBlinds had own theme but not everyone knows that there were also people going the opposite way:
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Still, in my opinion the Metro design of Windows 10 seems to be least pleasant among all current operating systems UI design but the weird announcement of Office new default icons (I assume there's nothing else to introduce in term of office suite features so new icons set is the way to show that developers do something) seem to previewing another change coming to Windows as an attempt to improve its UI look and feel. Vista and 7 UI was more closer to OSX Aqua than XP's Luna was but today, both systems as well as Linux DE (notably KDE's Breeze) are following simplicity of semi-plastic flat simple interfaces. The true skeuomorphism Microsoft has achieved in Vista - mostly with plexiglass-looking icons which flattened isometric variants are present today in Windows 10.
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But there was also a price - system could be bricked once update was applied.
Before Vista was released the greatest achievement of skinning community was releasing packages which were replacing default system bitmaps and often obsolete 9x graphical elements and giving in return the true visual integration.
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Personally I liked the default blue Luna until people figured out how to crack uxtheme.dll (which MS liked to patch back to its own defaults) and Visual Styles become a thing which opened the way to the real customization of Windows interface. I've read many times people called it Fisher Price UI because how it resembled the colorful plastic used in kids toys. The interface strikes a good balance between skeuomorphism and unique digital design
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