Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment

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  • Chicago95

    A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.

  • i have been quite happy with a windows95 approximation for gtk: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

    here's your comment in firefox with a glorious scrollbar: https://oshi.at/mLveVJ/scrollbar.png

  • progman

    progman.exe^H^H^H^H

  • https://github.com/jcs/progman

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  • themix-gui

    Graphical application for generating different color variations of Oomox (Numix-based) and Materia (ex-Flat-Plat) themes (GTK2, GTK3, Cinnamon, GNOME, Openbox, Xfwm), Archdroid, Gnome-Color, Numix, Papirus and Suru++ icon themes. Have a hack for HiDPI in gtk2. Its Base16 plugin also allowing a lot of app themes support like Alacritty, Emacs, GTK4, KDE, VIM and many more.

  • At least for GTK there is Oomox, a theme generator than provides even more customization than Windows 3.1

    https://github.com/themix-project/oomox

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