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Comment by userbinator | Hacker News Reader

This with WINE is what I think is the perfect combination of GUI and CLI... but as a long-time Windows user, several things stood out and made it look slightly off:

    the menu bar and padding around the icon labels is too tall
    the window borders are slightly too wide (compared to the default)
    scrollbar buttons shouldn't disable at end of travel
    sort direction indicator in header control (which first appeared in Win2k) should be a grey triangle, not a black arrow
    "KiB" and "GiB"
    font has some weird keming in some places

Nonetheless, this is a lot closer lookalike than some of the others I've seen, such as this one:

https://kmandla.wordpress.com/projects/lookalike-windows-xp-...

This comment makes me so happy. If I read it anywhere else I'd invoke Poe's Law and guess it was a joke. But it being HN I know it's for real, and I love it. Excellence in all we do

I like the meta-joke of complaining about the kerning and calling it "keming"

Thank you for pointing out the joke! My eyes went right past the first time. That is the best keming joke ever!

The font in the terminal called my attention. IIRC, the default one was the 8x8 CGA font with the option for it to be “Lucida Console”. Also, the icon for the terminal was the MSDOS 3D logo.

All in all, amazing work.

Is "keming" a graphical pun on "kerning"?

I didn't notice that at first glance. It's beautiful.

I thought so when I saw it, as well. It's pretty funny - bad kerning == keming [0]. It's a keeper, I'd say.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keming

Not to mention the fonts.

That's no MS Sans Serif...

To be fair, its also no moon.

It's the fonts in general, for me; though I also noticed that the menus and icons labels had too much padding.

That and Inconsolation was my preferred blog for years.

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