Creating Windows XP Icons (2001)

Re:Creating Windows XP Icons (2001) by rubyfan on Thursday December 13, 2018 @09:42AM (#18672582)

Windows Whistler Beta circa 2000. Had the simplicity of W2K with a little flair and a new start button menu. Way better than all the noise you see today.

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Re:Creating Windows XP Icons (2001) by pndy on Thursday December 13, 2018 @11:57AM (#18673815)

There were Visual Styles mimicking Whistler theme from betas dubbed as "Watercolor" [1], [2]

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/gpJbTLl.jpg

[2]: https://i.imgur.com/lpKrYe0.jpg

Majority of powerusers despised default Luna and often used Classic theme instead; Watercolor had a potential of being Classic v2 with its 9x simplicity and modern (as for those days) touch, sadly it wasn't included by default.

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Re:Creating Windows XP Icons (2001) by rubyfan on Friday December 14, 2018 @07:30AM (#18680333)

I loved that style and was so disappointed with what XP shipped with. I’d still take that style of any Win10 style.

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