Caramel!

[Liam Proven]

On 4/2/06, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:

> :)  Anything better than bright shiny blue, indeed, but as far as
> non-blue colors go, brown is a bit gloomy isn't it?

I think it looks warm, inviting, and pleasantly living and organic, as
opposed to the sterile, artificial, mechanical look of most desktops.
The ones that aren't trying - and failing, badly - to look like rock
videos, anyway.

(I wouldn't mind rock-video GUIs if they were done well. The look and
feel of the original Star Trek computers, or of Wargames or Tron or...
well, even the video for Roxette's /Almost Unreal/  from 1993.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z4WlnsMBbJM

Not a great song but an inoffensive bit of 90s soft rock, but if you
don't like that, turn the sound off & watch the SFX. Shiny! All right,
not terribly practical, but /interesting/ and /new./

I'm hoping that the coming wave of OpenGL & hardware 3D-accelerated
desktops prompts a new wave of innovation in GUI design, because we've
been stuck in a rut for some 20 years now.

> I thought the
> glossy firy orange of Flight 5 was very, very nice, while not being
> blue.

It was a bit /bright./ Different, yes, but...

> OKay, you make a very convincing case.   And such an entertaining post,
> too, I'll promise to stop bitching. :)

:¬) Nice one. Thankyou!

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