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@NanoRaptor ohhhh that's how you're meant to use the deskbar I see
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18 November at 21:54 | Open on social.shadowkat.net
@NanoRaptor Loved the CDEphone operating system, but more of an Octane-phone for the hardware sorta userโฆ @gumnos @NanoRaptor I would have loved an Irix Indy phone, complete with faux-stone texture. @Stitched @gumnos @NanoRaptor @gumnos @NanoRaptor the easy-eject SIM tray made these things just so much easier for IT teams to manage, back in the day @gumnos @NanoRaptor easy mistake to make. That's not the Octane Phone but rather the smaller O2 Phone I'd almost rather have IRIX than Linux, although I never actually *used* IRIX. I just always thought it looked hella cool. @NanoRaptor ok, now Iโm wondering about a LightPhone wearing this as a Halloween costume. (Or given the B&W screen, an OG Mac costume?) I read "CEOphone" first and that also made sense to me :blobcatgiggle: TBH that would make a good smartphone case. "The iSparc". @NanoRaptor Make it so! And include a webcam and a "mirror application" called "My Motif" @Eggfreckles @NanoRaptor oh my beautiful sweet #zune I still have and use two of them regularly. Way ahead of its time. @Eggfreckles @NanoRaptor Should have been OpenLook instead of CDE. @Eggfreckles @NanoRaptor In a different, better universe, this would've been Microsoft's Project Pink instead of the Kin @NanoRaptor what is SUN's flavor of Snow White design language called? whatever it is, have always loved it. edit: Apparently Frog Design had their hands on that. @NanoRaptor Canโt call my Zune Phone from it. Something to do with tunnelling the window managerโฆ? @NanoRaptor Well, some do worship Dark Lord Satan. Or maybe it's just fond memories of whatever GUI one remembers using first. I appreciate that they properly shrank the front panel and didnโt just cut it in half. Itโs those sorts of little touches (like creating one common widget library and windowing system and sticking to it) that make Sun so well-respected in the UX world. @NanoRaptor @NanoRaptor I'm not even kidding when I say I miss the glory days of Sun Microsystems. Solaris was awesome. I used it starting with some of the very early pre-release versions while working at Sun. Around Solaris 2.7 it really became amazing, scaling well on multiple CPUs at a time when operating systems did not always do so. @dgentry @NanoRaptor I ran Solaris 8 at home for about 15 years. Starting with an SS1000, ending with a E3500. @NanoRaptor hey, that's half the UI. The left half, specifically. Not seen in the pic are the "Stop" and "A" keys on the side. |