by rhim on 9/27/22, 7:02 AM with 152 comments
by qwerty456127 on 9/27/22, 7:39 AM
by yathaid on 9/27/22, 7:35 AM
by LoveMortuus on 9/27/22, 11:35 AM
On my main monitor I don't have any bars or anything, if there nothing open it's just a black screen, if it's sunny, sometimes I can't even tell if the display us turned on and that's how I like it.
A quiet black box that's there when I need it.
by quyleanh on 9/27/22, 8:13 AM
As both macOS and Windows user, I would like to minimize the task bar, menu bar height as small as possible, to maximize the display area of current using app. I prefer access to the apps, windows by keyboard as much as possible, because I feel it's quicker than click to icon or access through mouse.
One habit which I've dropped is changing wallpaper. I hadn't seen and didn't care about my wallpaper for a long time ago. There is always one window display on my computer. If I leave my desk, just lock it and unlock when I back.
by viraptor on 9/27/22, 7:20 AM
I remember trying out many alternatives on win2k and that one needed much fewer fixes...
by Semaphor on 9/27/22, 7:57 AM
Nowadays, all the customization I need is a tool to fix the taskbar position that someone who probably uses a portrait mode monitor moved to the wrong spot [2] and a launcher [3]
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep
[1]: http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/
by tryptophan on 9/27/22, 11:56 AM
I like key-pirranah the most. Configuration is on the harder side as launchers go, but it has been rock-solid since then for over a year.
I just type a few letters and it opens the folder/program I want.
by petargyurov on 9/27/22, 7:32 AM
Windows already suffers from 3 (?) different UI styles; does this fix that or add to the problem?
by NayamAmarshe on 9/27/22, 7:55 AM
by mariusmg on 9/27/22, 7:41 AM
by est on 9/27/22, 7:41 AM
by vegetable on 9/27/22, 7:41 PM
by lostmsu on 9/28/22, 12:45 AM
It supports Windows 11, meaning you can actually upgrade and replace its crippled taskbar with this.
by mdtrooper on 9/27/22, 9:35 AM
The road is difficult, now I am a normal user of GNU/Linux, but when I started this road, this kind of embarrasing things was my crutch or walking stick. The last step is the laptop/computer has only a partition with GNU/Linux, when it happens, you walked the more diffult part of road.
Well, I mean that yes this projects are embarrasing, but they are good and they help a lot people (include me). Thanks embarrasing projects.
by HeckFeck on 9/27/22, 9:04 AM
We just need someone to port this to Windows 11 and the shell is usable again.
by fredgrott on 9/27/22, 12:38 PM
by quadral on 9/27/22, 7:57 AM
by yellowapple on 9/29/22, 12:25 AM
by nsonha on 9/27/22, 7:59 AM
by bobiny on 9/27/22, 12:03 PM
by ChoGGi on 9/27/22, 1:57 PM
No start menu just a bunch of desktop icons, Dopus is probably the closest thing to a start menu/launcher I have.
by dang on 9/27/22, 9:17 AM
Cairo Desktop Environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21734913 - Dec 2019 (88 comments)
by awestroke on 9/27/22, 8:27 AM
by coldacid on 9/27/22, 12:13 PM
by pipeline_peak on 9/27/22, 6:28 PM
In high school, if you had one of these tacked on Windows UI things, you were likely the kid who took the Apple sticker that came with your iPod nano and slapped it on your Windows laptop.
by cryptos on 9/27/22, 8:07 AM
by cakirh on 9/27/22, 7:58 AM
for god's sake they should update the site immediately!
by kleiba on 9/27/22, 7:28 AM
https://www.cairographics.org/
If so, it would be a pretty terrible choice of name for a project with a focus on something that's visual (an alternative Windows desktop), given that cairolib is a graphics lib. I, for one, have been rather confused.