Also shout out XFCE-winxp-tc, which makes your Linux look like Windows XP. Lots of people know about Chicago95, but this project is excellent for that 2004 vibe

[0] https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc

dylan604•44 minutes ago

man, it's the internet. you don't need a fit. you just need to want to.

ranger_danger•about 2 hours ago

My gripe has always been that none of these xfce/gtk/etc. themes are ever actually pixel-perfect, even when they claim to be. Not sure if there is a legal concern there or not.

Gualdrapo•about 1 hour ago

More than legal concerns is that theming engines on each DE can be a bit limiting trying to do such things. i.e. for KDE Plasma you'd need to do a fair amount of SVG trickery to reach 100% accuracy respect of the originals.

Plus the icons thing - they're not as easy as people might think.

But this xfce-winxp-tc seems to be really, really close to the original. In those first two screenshots I thought it was just screenshots of the original WinXP.

Also the CSS framework subject of this thread looks really identical to the widgets and stuff of Win98.

But if you want true 100% pixel-perfect windows 98/xp/whatever... Just use them.

bhouston•20 minutes ago

Very authentic almost down to the pixel. I love it!

Btw default buttons like OK should have a thick black outline.

Also windows UIs loved group boxes and radio buttons and checkboxes. I notice those are missing.

Also it seems that the dropdown is missing.

pxtail•about 1 hour ago

Nitpick: tabs in the multirow tabs example do not change position randomly as they should when clicked

lambdaone•42 minutes ago

Windows XP and MacOS System 7 had pretty good looking GUIs. Since then, modern keyboard-and-mouse UIs have not really improved that much; it's mostly been just evolving and polishing styling. All the real innovation has been on touchscreen devices.

sshworld•about 1 hour ago

Impressie that this is pure CSS with no JavaScript. The border and box-shadow tricks to recreate the beveled Win98 look are really well done!

wseqyrku•about 1 hour ago

Folks, can we have a css framework for TUIs please?

eichin•25 minutes ago

Textual? https://textual.textualize.io/

mysterydip•27 minutes ago

something like this? https://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/v2.3.1/

wseqyrku•3 minutes ago

Unlike other comments this one is actually a css framework except that it's too cute. If you had ~textual theme for a css framework that could probably work for lots of practical use.

bewuethr•about 1 hour ago

lipgloss is pretty close: https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss

simonw•39 minutes ago

The blue gradients on the titlebars are actually very pleasing.

conductr•about 1 hour ago

The HTML formatting behind the ‘Show Code’ triggered some PTSD when it appeared

chrisweekly•7 minutes ago

huh? it's clean basic HTML, for all the ones I checked...

ranger_danger•about 2 hours ago

https://github.com/lolstring/window98-html-css-js

https://github.com/anthmn/hackertosh.css

https://github.com/AlexBSoft/win95.css

https://github.com/1j01/os-gui

https://github.com/themesberg/windows-95-ui-kit

https://github.com/andersevenrud/retro-css-shell-demo

https://github.com/arturbien/React95

https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css

https://github.com/Gioni06/terminal.css

https://github.com/jdan/98.css

https://github.com/jianzhongli/csswin10

https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css

https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

https://github.com/lachsfilet/Renkbench

https://github.com/lolstring/window98-html-css-js

https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css

https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css

https://github.com/npjg/classic.css

https://github.com/robbiebyrd/platinum

https://github.com/bryanbraun/after-dark-css

https://github.com/npjg/new-dawn

https://github.com/ritenv/retro-desktop

https://github.com/RoelN/c64css3

https://github.com/sakofchit/system.css

https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss

https://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

https://cs16.samke.me/

https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

https://thesimscss.inbn.dev/

https://snes-css.sadlative.com/

https://css.ds.dreamyard.xyz/

https://irv77.github.io/Xbox360UI/

kristopolous•about 2 hours ago

Hey I'm there. Thanks

mysterydip•21 minutes ago

I love your design! I used it in a prototype BBS game playable on the web :)

xbar•about 2 hours ago

Thank you for the library. I was about to ask after 2 of these design spaces.

cush•about 1 hour ago

Seeing this makes me unreasonably happy. Funny how nostalgia is

harry8•about 1 hour ago

Funny how nostalgia differs for different people. I hated all that so much at the time that I installed linux (RH 7.x) from a magazine cd and learned to program in C & perl.

That multirows tab UI thing was an utter abomination against usability, intelligence, good sense, decency, justice and obviously any and all aesthetics. Why bring it back? To fix it maybe?

jagged-chisel•about 1 hour ago

The link points to the status bar. Was that intentional?