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by rismay 1056 days ago
Why does this look like it’s from the 80’s still?
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pram 1056 days ago
Because it’s the free (like freedom not beer) version of something from the 80s.
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chasil 1056 days ago
The interface is from NeXT OS, which as a company was led by Steve Jobs.

The underlying architecture of NeXT was largely adopted into OS X and iOS.

The GUI appearance evokes nostalgia for those that used it (the very first web browser was written within NeXT).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP

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kzrdude 1056 days ago
I would wish they'd pick something based on whiteish background instead of gray (white like the early Mac OS X versions would be nice, don't need pinstripes.)
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badsectoracula 1056 days ago
Some people like dark themes, others like light themes, so gray is the middle ground :-P.

FWIW GNUstep is themable so it should be possible to customize it. Though i'm not aware of any that follows modern trends, but at least it is possible to make it kinda sorta like a broken telephone version of early Mac OS X using the Rik theme[0] (the screenshot also seems to be using a custom theme and setup for Window Maker too and judging from the shadows it most likely also uses Compiz as a compositor).

[0] https://github.com/AlessandroSangiuliano/rik.theme

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apple4ever 1055 days ago
Some like it, but I believe its a big hinderance for wider adoption. Maybe as the older folks age out, there will be some motivation to update the theme again.

(Its a big reason why I stopped contributing to GNUStep, as the resistance to modernize at least a little bit was large).

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coldtea 1055 days ago
It's its superiority to modern GUIs that make it appear so
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