On Lawn's Journal: Best Desktop Evar

I've said a few times that I've never seen desktops with the same grandeur and artistry that I saw ten years ago. At that time Rasterman was still young, optomistic and dreamy eyed about this emerging Linux desktop. A time before Redhat and corporate mentality eroded all of that unabashed glorious excess.

Luckily I was able to find some screenshots from back in the day. All I can say is check them out for yourself...

The Default desktop was often the best

One thing you miss in the screenshots is how everything would light up as you selected it, as if you were on a theatre stage directing a performance.

Remember this was running on your 486.

Back then #1 was more known for his desktop themes.

What happened?

[rk]

What happened to all those light on black desktop schemes of yesteryear? I hate the glare of obnoxious white all over my screens these days.

My IceWM theme at home is nice and dark, but the only way I can figure out how to make my Mac at work do that is turn on reverse video in the accessibility panel, which makes my terminal sessions look like crap.

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[Bill Dog]

I hate the glare of obnoxious white all over my screens these days.

Reminds me of something a friend of mine in college once pointed out to me. He was a DOS-head, I was a Mac-head (this was late 80's), and we each strongly disliked the other's choice. But I couldn't argue much with his sentiment that my system in comparison was like trying to read the writing on a lit lightbulb!

I've always had to turn the brightness and contrast of my monitors way down when working with black-on-white systems, or I get heada

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[On Lawn]

I can agree about the dark being better.

But then again most web-sites that have white on black are annoying to me. They are much harder to read than black on white. Though the most classy sites have much softer contrasts in the middle range.