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Re:A new wave of Linux applications by rightbyte on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:07PM (#30365685)
I'm quite sure you could change system colors willy nilly in OS 8. It was great fun. I miss that part - the feeling of having "your own" system.

Since customization where pretty standard back then, it feels like product managers pushing their "vision" rather than technical difficulties preventing that nowadays.

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Re:A new wave of Linux applications by kitsunesoba on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:19PM (#30365835)
Kaleidoscope and later on Appearance Manager in Classic Mac OS were so much fun. No OS theming system I’ve encountered since have been as capable as those were.
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Re:A new wave of Linux applications by rightbyte on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:06PM (#30367097)
Ye I wonder what fantastic APIs were actually exposed. I remember some 3rd party screen saver I had. Where like Goofy peeked out of folders and Donald Duck was cleaning up some file mess. I mean, how could you even program that?

I think it was on the real desktop, not some bitmap, but not too sure.

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