From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: splite@purdue.edu To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware confused about color depth Message-ID: <20030515120504.A1479@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> References: <6cadf077b950e3e3bd64a094ee21a443@plan9.bell-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6cadf077b950e3e3bd64a094ee21a443@plan9.bell-labs.com>; from rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com on Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:37:30PM -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:05:04 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ad3bffe8-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:37:30PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > > XP? Is it just me, or do the colors and "green field background" and > > buttons and such on XP make you think the Teletubbies are going to pop up > > out of some window and start giving you advice on mouse actions? > > I like the colors. Windows hasn't been colorful since 3.1. > 95, 98, NT, and 2000 were this drab grey that everyone > now seems to think has to be the way computer interfaces look. MS just stole that idea from Motif. They can't even be originally unoriginal.