Funny Kite for XP

[TheMud]

Was fooling around with my Daughters Vista thingy to make
it look like an Amiga, an fell over this site...:

http://osx.portraitofakite.com/

I finde it cool and it runs very smooth and good :-) ...

[McVenco]

Wow, the preview 'website' looks pretty impressive. If it looks and feels the same when being run installed on top of XP it's a pretty neat program.

I think I'll give it a try at home tonight.

[TheMud]

It really looks good ... And is fast when its been installed. Would like an Amiga Kite to like this :-)

[tokyoracer]

Very clever indeed.

[mingle]

Very clever...

But am I one of the few (the only one?!?) that runs XP with all the eye-candy cr*p turned off ('classic' view)?

To me, all of the eye candy of modern OSes is just so pointless - XP, Vista, OSX, AmigaOS...

As long as I have a mouse pointer, a start menu, drop down menus and icons, (oh and 24 bit colourspace!) I'm happy...

So long as I can run the apps I need, I don't give a hoot about the 'theme' of the desktop. The more whizz-bang gfx, the slower the machine will run, although with CPU speed these days that's no so much of an issue...

Just curious what others think?

(Just my $0.02...)

Cheers,

Mike.

[Piru]

But am I one of the few (the only one?!?) that runs XP with all the eye-candy cr*p turned off ('classic' view)?

You're not alone.

XP default theme always makes me puke.

[meega]

And another here. Mine looks like Win9x.

[McVenco]

am I one of the few (the only one?!?) that runs XP with all the eye-candy cr*p turned off ('classic' view)?

I never liked the 'classic' look of Win95/98/ME (boring grey blocky stuff, even worse than standard WB3.1). But I also don't like the standard (blue) look of XP, so I rather use the built-in silvery theme.

For the rest, the only eye candy on my desktop is the wallpaper that I use (mostly pictures that I took myself on holidays etc). I've turned off all fading/scrolling menus and other 3D-ish crap. But that's mostly because to modern day standards my pc is somewhat slow and lacking in memory (and I prefer using free physical RAM above virtual memory - it's slow enough as it is now).

[meega]

My 'wallpaper' is (128,128,128)  :lol:

[monami]

it looks fairly nice and reminds me of when i first ran osx but i browsing for about 3 seconds when i thought damn where is everything? thats how i felt with osx. i think something like that would require too much getting used to for me. i could never quite get used to it i have no idea why i just couldn't get my head around it. i prefered the windows interface over it! even if i prefered whats underneath. :crazy:

[McVenco]

monami wrote:

i think something like that would require too much getting used to for me.

That's just a matter of using it longer. When I first used Linux (I believe a Red Hat distro) I didn't understand much of it either. I'm still no expert, but at least I can find my way around a bit. Same goes for OS X - once you abandon thinking "but in Windows it works like this", it's all pretty logical.

But I guess that's the case with all operating systems, in some way :-)

[monami]

yeah i partly agree. but it's just not functional for me to have the close minimise restore buttons on the left and other things you know? it constantly felt like hard work!

[TheMud]

Well I have it all... Mac Os X, Windows Vista, Linux and Amiga OS ... And the only one that "works" perfectly for me is Mac OS X ... But anyway. We don't want that discussion....

Think we all like Amiga OS :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

meega wrote:
And another here. Mine looks like Win9x.

I got it purple-grey-ish ('Plum', but with my dromeosaurus as walpaper on a black background).
I got this for years now. I got kinda the same for Linux. I got 'some' fancy stuff turned on in Linux, because it adds some necessary functionality (like, a window stretched on more desktops).

[Speelgoedmannetje]

TheMud wrote:

Think we all like Amiga OS :-)

Aye...
But not it's colour settings :lol: