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That UI looks like something out of the late 80s / early 90s. I can smell the VCR head cleaner and scratch-n-sniff stickers and hear the dial-up internet bee-bee-bee-bee-gurglegugrle-dong-ding-dong-ding-whooooooooosh-wheeeeeeeesh-bling! bling whooooo.

Can we at least upgrade the fonts, colors, and negative space to make it look more 2020s?

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Can we at least upgrade the fonts, colors, and negative space to make it look more 2020s?

Of course YOU can, it's open source, feel free to hack away at it.

There's been the Desktop Modernization Engine / Project

https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/portfolio/risc-os-desktop-m...

discussion here:

https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/1/topics/17696

Development seems to have stalled / slowed down.

I know this is a joke but this OS was first released in 1987... I forgot all about it, but it's pretty cool that you can still run it on hardware.

> Can we at least upgrade the fonts, colors, and negative space to make it look more 2020s?

Ew. Please no.

I hate 2020 OS design. It's flat and ugly and confusing.

And this is very much not just me.

https://medium.com/@jared.cyr/is-flat-design-overrated-1b9d4...

https://www.spinxdigital.com/blog/downsides-flat-design-tren...

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/

1990s design was clearer, cleaner and better, dammit.

https://twitter.com/RetroTechDreams/status/17860872619535321...

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