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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware confused about color depth
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:37:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cadf077b950e3e3bd64a094ee21a443@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305150753320.31965-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>

> 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.

The vibrant colors make it nicer, ever so slightly like Plan 9.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-15 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-15  1:59 markp
2003-05-15  2:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-05-15  3:48   ` Russ Cox
2003-05-15  4:10     ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-05-15  7:48       ` northern snowfall
2003-05-15  6:58         ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-15  8:26           ` northern snowfall
2003-05-15  7:38             ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-15 12:27             ` Dan Cross
2003-05-15 12:31               ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-15 13:54           ` ron minnich
2003-05-15 16:37             ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-05-15 17:05               ` splite
2003-05-15 19:07                 ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-15 16:39             ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-15 16:48               ` Russ Cox
2003-05-15 18:42             ` Charles Forsyth
2003-05-15 19:05               ` boyd, rounin
2003-05-15  3:45 ` Russ Cox
2003-05-15 16:59 ` Russ Cox
2003-05-15  5:09 markp
2003-05-15  5:24 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-05-15  7:21   ` matt
2003-05-15 13:50 ` ron minnich
2003-05-15  5:32 markp
2003-05-15 22:19 markp

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