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Star Trek Lcars Desktop Environment

by redconfetti on 8/3/22, 8:34 PM with 3 comments

• by redconfetti on 8/3/22, 8:34 PM

  Desktop environment that looks somewhat like the LCARS (Library Computer Access/Retrieval System) graphical interface first used in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS

• by themodelplumber on 8/3/22, 9:01 PM

  Looking at some videos of the interface in action on Youtube, that seems pretty unique, bravo to the author for the effort.

  It might be cool to see it use a system-wide flat icon theme in areas like the settings, where you end up with rows of labeled buttons of different pastel colors.

  It also seems to me--could be wrong--that some homage-style window decorations and a windowed interface could be a really nice look as well. In fact the colors and general simplicity reminded me a lot of CDE.

• by PaulHoule on 8/3/22, 9:29 PM

  It looks like it wants to be an appliance interface as opposed to a desktop interface.