Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by herbst on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:35AM (#16324241)

> it feels minimalistic, and is almost always fast, and stays out of the way of whatever I'm working on.

absolutely :)

What i like the most is you are just a super key tab away from basically everything so focus on a single thing feels natural and right. There is no way to lose anything either, its all there. Always.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by dm319 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:37PM (#16328242)

I'm going to have to give it another go then, though I do love my MATE desktop.

The last time I tried it, I got frustrated when working with a lot of pdf sources - hitting the super key just presented me with a myriad of white rectangles where open windows would frequently rearrange requiring a slow manual search to find the file I was looking for. This can be less of a problem with a taskbar, as the filename is the main identifier, and being 1 dimensional it is easier to scan and preserves its position better.

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