fox-toolkit
Unofficial Zenotech specific mirror of fox-toolkit; please refer to upstream site for latest version (by zenotech)
Chicago95
A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux. (by grassmunk)
| fox-toolkit | Chicago95 | |
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| 4 | 151 | |
| 7 | 4,243 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 7.5 | |
| almost 7 years ago | 2 months ago | |
| C++ | HTML | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fox-toolkit
Posts with mentions or reviews of fox-toolkit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.
- September 10 – FOX DEVELOPMENT 1.7.84
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Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy
You can get this today again using the FOX toolkit (http://www.fox-toolkit.org/). This is probably my favorite lightweight toolkit. Patches gladly welcomed for a11y and Wayland.
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GUI for software, not games, but lighter than Qt ?
FOX Toolkit
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Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
One brave GUI toolkit continues to use the Windows 95 look. Personally I really like that look (or design language, as we're apparently meant to say these days). Clean, high-contrast, and it's clear which widgets are clickable. It has the added bonus that its drawing operations can easily be hard-coded for excellent performance.
http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
Chicago95
Posts with mentions or reviews of Chicago95.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-03.
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Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003 and newer
If that's a concern for you, there are themes for GTK3 and GTK4 that replicate classic 3D widgets and remove much of the excess padding in modern apps. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 (You should install both; Chicago95 is more actively developed, but B00merang gives you a GTK+4 theme that's currently missing from Chicago95.) Works reasonably well as a daily-driver, giving you a similar look to the modern SerenityOS GUI on a standard Linux system. Even the modern GTK+4 "responsive" apps work as designed, with some non-critical graphical quirks.
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Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
Chicago was the code name for the development version of the highly anticipated Windows95
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Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
Haven’t tried it, but there’s https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
- Windowsi kasutajad, kuidas tee nii vähese 🪟-sisaldusega hakkama saate?
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Ubuntu 90s theme
Might be looking for something closer to this: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
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OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition
I bloody want my Linux and apps on it to look like this or something of this flavour. Most retro themes are poor quality shams (Chicago95[1] is the only good one, yet still not perfect). I feel like I would gladly pay serious money for a really high quality conversion of all the parts, including themes for all widget libraries and no quirks.
[1]https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
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Looking for a specific 'subgenre' of digital minimalism - "Retro digital"?
Chicago95
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Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64
Related: you can make Linux look like Windows 95 (98/2000/XP), icons and all: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
It works really well.
- Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fox-toolkit and Chicago95 you can also consider the following projects:
FLTK - FLTK - Fast Light Tool Kit - https://github.com/fltk/fltk - cross platform GUI development
Windows-XP - Windows XP themes
wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library
xfce-winxp-tc - Windows XP stuff for XFCE
nana - a modern C++ GUI library
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
GTK+ - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows
nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)
gtkmm - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm
Chicagofier - An automatic Chicago95 script for Xubuntu