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The Windows 95 user interface: a case study in usability engineering
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (400+ words) If this isn't catnip to the average OSNews reader, I don't know what is. Windows 95 is a comprehensive upgrade to the Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 products. Many changes have been made in almost every area of Windows, with the…...
You are not required to close your , , , or tags in HTML
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (440+ words) Are you an author writing HTML? Just so we're clear: Not XHTML. HTML. Without the X. If you are, repeat after me, because apparently this bears repeating (after the title): You are not required to close your <p>, <li…...
What about the icons in pifmgr.dll?
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (381+ words) Raymond Chen has another great post about some of the classic icons from Windows 95, this time focusing on pifmgr.dll. In this file, there are a variety of random-seeming icons, and it turns out they're random for a reason: they were…...
How to turn Liquid Glass into a solid interface
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (257+ words) Apple's new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult to read. Here's how to control its effects and make your interface more usable. Although the…...
It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (1124+ words) If you're of a certain age (and not American), there's a specific corporate font you're most likely aware of. You may not know its exact name, and you may not actively remember it, but once you see it, you know…...
8×19 text mode font origins
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (293+ words) Ever wanted to know everything about a specific 819 font Intel used for the POST and BIOS screens on its motherboards? OS/2 Museum's Michal Necasek has you covered. The obvious remaining question is, who came up with 819 fonts for BIOS use?...
KWin gets Liquid Glass effects “Only Apple” can make
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (144+ words) Apple, back in June of this year: Today, iGerman00, detailing their merge request for adding Liquid Glass effects to a KWin plugin: Added a Concave (lens) refraction mode for a more "Liquid Glass" look, it's a lot closer than the current…...
Haiku gets proper HiDPI cursor scaling, improved colour schemes, and more
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (424+ words) Haiku also survived another month of development, so it's time for another roundup of what they've been doing. Considering it's the height of Summer, it's no surprise the list of changes is a bit shorter, consisting mostly of smaller bugfixes…...
wlmaker: Wayland compositor that reproduces Window Maker’s look and feel
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (155+ words) What if you want to use Wayland, but prefer Window Maker, which is restricted to legacy X11? Enter wlmaker, or Wayland Maker, a Wayland compositor that reproduces the look and feel of Window Maker. It's lightweight, very configurable through human-readable configuration…...
Wayback: experimental layer to run X desktop environments on Wayland
9+ mon, 4+ day ago (601+ words) With X.org being in maintenance mode, with the process of replacing it with Wayland accelerating pretty quickly now, a lot of projects using X.org are looking for ways to prepare for the future. Alpine Linux, a distribution focused on musl,…...