Annie D

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Annie D @ann-arcana2/8/2023, 8:38 PM

Annie D @ann-arcana

colin @vogon2/7/2023, 5:11 PM

found out about NsCDE last night

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

I'm not sure I understand the elements of social realism the developer perceives in the CDE aesthetic, but I do appreciate that someone is dusting off late-'90s workstation look & feel and applying it to a modern window manager, because now I can make a computer look The Way A Computer Is Supposed To Look, without having to suffer through quite so many bad habits of software of the late '90s

Annie D @ann-arcana2/8/2023, 8:38 PM

Haha, I did the thing.

It is so wild seeing Firefox and Discord with CDE window dressing.

It feels less than ideal on a laptop somehow though. This interface feels very mouse oriented in a way most desktops don't anymore, because they're all compensating for at least as much slop as you expect from a touchpad, and the third mouse button is all but vestigial in 2023.

EDIT: It appears to do some violence to a number of system defaults like GTK themes and even somehow my Konsole color settings, so I must advise caution unless you're prepared for it to be your new main DE. :D

#nscde #retro tech #Unix nerdery

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kata 🌊 aqua!@kadybat2/7/2023, 5:12 PM

NsCDEez

why the lucky spliff @topghost2/7/2023, 5:16 PM

(picard over-enunciating to dathon voice) manjaro, on SNORVAX, his terminal open

colin @vogon2/7/2023, 5:19 PM

:yeah:

erysdren @erysdren2/7/2023, 5:50 PM

i used NsCDE for a little while, it's cool but i couldn't get used to it compared to my standard GNOME installation. as much as i wanted to enjoy it, since i love the aesthetic, i just couldn't get into the groove of it for some reason

@ivey2/7/2023, 5:59 PM

Motif widgets were the best computers have ever looked. I still remember the SGI Indy laptop they had in Twister, and how much I wanted it to be real.

Dana Fried @leftoblique2/7/2023, 6:16 PM

I'm surprised they shipped a theme that doesn't meet accessibility standards, though.

The menu text is at best about 3.3:1; minimum under WCAG standards is 4.5:1. I appreciate the retro aesthetic but a product being distributed in 2023 needs to do better.

colin @vogon2/7/2023, 6:28 PM

fwiw this is just the particular color scheme I chose; I changed it from the default, and a lot of the other color schemes have better contrast

Dana Fried @leftoblique2/7/2023, 6:34 PM

Fair, but if you look at the image in the README, they're using several themes that have inaccessible contrast ratios. So it's difficult looking at it to know that it is, in fact, shipped with themes that aren't inaccessible.

Dana Fried @leftoblique2/7/2023, 6:37 PM

Also to be clear: in the README image, I'm seeing it put both white and black text against the pastel-colored backgrounds; it is generally not possible to use both white and black (never mind light and dark grey, which is what it is actually using) against the same background color for normal-sized text and have both be sufficient contrast.

Matthew Cole @karobit2/7/2023, 7:54 PM

surface level, i would just like my computer to look like a Z5 Powerlance from Last Call BBS deep down, i would like to feel like i did in the springtime of my failed year at college, in the computer lab shitting around on irc and nascent blogs, trying to get out of the way of all the other students actually working on term papers by using the shunned, discarded linux terminals, rather than the pcs or macs

Irenes (many)@ireneista2/7/2023, 9:10 PM

for sure.

KoHoSo @KoHoSo2/7/2023, 9:00 PM

I'm pretty happy to know that a knucklehead like me is running the same operating system at home as a cohost dev.

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