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monkey:
lol, the background thread turned into the PC thread, I'm surprised there isn't one already actually, there is a my pc hates me thread but it's not really the same.
--- Quote from: Takeru ¥amamoto on May 12 2007, 01:28 pm ---NO. Absolutely not. Why would I compare it against itself? I was comparing Vista's shiny default skin, Aero, with other skins from other products. Aqua is the magnificent work of Apple for the Mac OS X and features a soft unobtrusive color scheme, and the effects are a lot better and a lot prettier. Luna was the atrocious looking theme for Windows XP that was full of clashing colors and whatnot (yuck). Classic is the boxy grayish meh theme for all of the Windows OS's preceding Windows XP.
Windows Aero
Aqua
Windows Luna
Windows Classic
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You mean "YES, ,That's basically right"? If I took out the words "for Vista" on the end of my post, that's what I was trying to say/get at. I didn't know those skins all had their respective names.
But you called the mac skin magnificent? I must immediately protest. That skin has done nothing but irritate me for two years now, that's how long I've been using one and it's done nothing but make me like it less and less. The colours for it are extremely dull, especially after hours of work on it and having to look at them all the time. As you can tell, I very much dislike mac's skin, however the perfect OS would be mac's power/abilities in an (I'm assuming that it's a good skin) Aero skin using Windows controls.
While Luna, I've yet to see any of these "clashing colors" since Blue, Green and Red all go hand in hand with each other, what with them all being primary colours. It's not the most beautiful thing in the world to look at but at least it's more comforting on the eye than mac & classic.
I don't think anybody liked classic so nothing to disagree with there, lol..
--- Quote from: Takeru ¥amamoto on May 12 2007, 01:28 pm ---Personally, the things I like about Aero are its glassy look, its intuitivity, and its . However, Aqua is also really good looking and takes up a lot less memory, and it has much better effects (like I said, stuff that just "disappears" is really outdated nowadays). It's important to note that Aero got a lot of influences and ideas from Aqua (or at least we can assume that, since Aero came years after Aqua).
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Yes I totally agree on the Aero comment about the glassy look, that really attracts me to it too but again with the Aqua, It was just not a nice skin to look at or use. By stuff that disappears are you trying to talk about how when you minimize a mac window you it goes down in it's 'Genie' style? It's nice looking that one few milliseconds piece of animation but to instantly assume that they got that from Aqua is jumping the gun a bit, Since Luna itself also carries the same function. Luna's version may not be animated nearly as well but none of it's windows just disappear, when you minimize it, the window goes down the screen and into the task bar and the windows that do just disappear are when you click the X and then I want it to disappear ASAP to stop wasting my time with a window I don't want/need. like you said, stuff that disappears is really outdated, and that's why the OS skins haven't done that since the classic skin.
I'm still not prepared to risk exploitation by getting Vista. It may look nice but the amount of faults with Vista are just too big, I don't have £40-£70 to spend on something just because it looks nice. When it becomes safer and it's problems sorted out then I shall re-evaluate how I see it.
Takeru:
Aye. But if you were getting it for free...
(I still think Luna looks really bad.)
What Aqua succeeds in doing is making it look plain without making it look uninteresting, or downright ugly. And of course you'll grow to dislike it after a while, that's just natural. Things get old, life goes on. *shrug*
monkey:
--- Quote from: Takeru ¥amamoto on May 13 2007, 06:34 am ---Aye. But if you were getting it for free...
(I still think Luna looks really bad.)
What Aqua succeeds in doing is making it look plain without making it look uninteresting, or downright ugly. And of course you'll grow to dislike it after a while, that's just natural. Things get old, life goes on. *shrug*
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I dunno, I've been on XP a few years and I'm not bored of it, in fact, I don't get bored of a lot of things. I'm still into music from when I was 10. I wonder.. does that make me weird? lol
and I still wouldn't accept Vista even if it was free, It's a hell of a lot more dangerous than XP is at the moment. Vista will be usable when they sort all the faults out with it. It still looks pretty tho.
LSD:
i've heard bad things about windowns vista but it does look cool..
meh idk a thing about computers except the basic
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my desktop looks like this
hehe its messier inside.. i haven't move the files since i messed it...-- everything is oin once folder :P well except my yaoi. and yuri. its on "lalala"--
monkey:
Underoath <3 <3
It's weird seeing windows in another language XD
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