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by pwdisswordfish8 1726 days ago
Icons clearly come from Windows 95 (some, I think, from Millennium even). Not in itself a bad thing (I do actually think 9x icons were an improvement), but if it’s advertised as mimicking Windows 3.11, it better stick to that promise. Flat toolbar buttons are also out of place. The spacing of buttons on the title bar matches neither version. It’s also weird seeing the theme with Ubuntu fonts instead of System and MS Sans Serif. Scroll bars do look pretty faithful at least.

What I’d like to see someday is a theme with a kind of remastered Windows 3.x/9x look: icons upscaled, cross-hatch Bayer dithering smoothed out into flat, solid surfaces, dotted lines replaced by semi-transparency, bitmap fonts remade into vector fonts while maintaining all the character shapes, so that they maintain the look and feel while taking advantages of high-DPI, high-colour screen. That would be a joy to look at, kind of like watching an episode of Star Trek TNG in 1080p.