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Re:SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @11:13AM (#43763185)
Single-click was implemented possibly by 2k but definitely by XP.
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Re:SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces by zozbot234 on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @11:24AM (#43763284)
You could single-click to open files in Windows 98 already. You could also hover your mouse pointer on a file icon and it would become selected.
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Re:SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces by trinix912 on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @12:03PM (#43763689)
It was the Internet Explorer shell integration that brought us this feature. The idea was to blend the desktop and web user interfaces. If you installed IE4 on Windows 95, you'd get that option there too.
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Re:SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces by kapitar on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @12:38PM (#43764019)
Yes, it was called Active Desktop if memory serves.
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