saw “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” untold number of times. love the atmosphere, colors, rhythm, everything… except “the” scene, skip it every time.
and so occasionally I wanna feel like lisbeth superhacker and I dust off an old Macbook Pro 17 running Lion; I believe she’s running Tiger with a custom color scheme? you could do that back then…
now this thing is useless nowadays, everything on it is so old you’re encouraged to never connect it to any network, ever. but still… it looks gorgeous. the dated skeuomorphisms, the aqua buttons, the chubby font, everything is fucking beautiful! and the responsiveness - this doesn’t feel like a Core2Duo with close to no RAM, at all…
why can’t we have this thing now when apple don’t want it no more? like, I would adore a libre OS X. with the ancient iTunes playing just local MP3. and the messed up window manager. and the weird launchdaemons/agents.
there are some ancient themes for XFCE and Mate, but those look like shit. the negative space, kerning, etc… somehow everything looks great here, whereas those things look like ransom notes from 1976.
/rant
For anyone wanting to use a Fruitiger Aero desktop today, there is AeroThemePlasma
I don’t get super nostalgic for old OS themes, but from a purely aesthetic angle, I absolutely LOVE frutiger aero.
I’m eagerly awaiting the pendulum swinging back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX_Interactive_Desktop
I’d like to see OPEN LOOK come back. It was like a 90s precursor to Frutiger Aero; flat bas-relief shading of the era when GPU compositing, or even true colour, couldn’t be taken as a given, though with an architectural aesthetic elegance, quite a bit more spacious and lighter than the brutalistically clunky Motif.
return
Reminds me of what I saw of the new iOS design.
