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Windows XP stuff for XFCE (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Holy crap, this is amazing! I mean, I kinda hate the XP UI (and the UE was worse lol), but if you loved it, good on you! This is fantastically close. Like, it's uncanny.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I kinda hate the XP UI

I miss Windows 7 though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have followed this guide in a VM and it sort of works. It involves messing with source files to get it working on a modern setup (many outdated dependencies, compiler requirements, a few bugs here and there) and some helper files crash the UI, but it's getting pretty close. With Wine set up I bet you'd be able to fool quite a few people into thinking you're actually running Windows 7 with a weird translucency added to Aero.

We'll never seen the full care and unified design Microsoft put into Windows 7 on a normal desktop. For a short while I had hope for Gnome, because it's fat window borders seem to mirror Windows 7s quite well, but Gnome went all anti-theming and CSDso I don't think it's worth putting effort into such a theme.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=KFr4tqk7Mvg

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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