After messing with #darkmode the last couple of days I’m reminded of how way back in #Windows95 you could set a theme for the system UI by choosing individual colors for window backgrounds, borders, buttons, dialog boxes, etc. I liked to set the standard gray background to sepia and see which programs used the system colors and which hard-coded gray, making their UI a weird patchwork where their custom components weren’t the same scheme as the built-in ones.
Tag: Windows95
Trying out Dark Mode on my laptop again, seeing that there are still a lot …
Trying out Dark Mode on my laptop again, seeing that there are still a lot of apps that hard-code a white background
Thinking about the old Windows 95 days when you could individually set every color in the desktop UI
And remembering how odd some applications looked because they used the system backgrounds and hard-coded foregrounds
#UI #Windows95 #DarkMode
Have the clippy thing!
Just moments after I looked up the Windows 95 release date, J said (referring to the carabiner he was playing with), “Daddy have the clippy thing!” *shudder*