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    [–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 158 points 6 months ago

    composited by the real dwm.exe

    Okay, that's fucking cool.

    [–] 4grams@awful.systems 131 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    This is cursed, unnecessary, unexpected and impressive all at the same time.

    [–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 6 months ago

    Ie half of the themes out there

    [–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 76 points 6 months ago

    They even got the good version of Aero that doesn't add weird white stripes to the glass, and instead let's it just be blurry.

    [–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I both love, and hate this. Thanks.

    [–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 months ago

    Absolutely came here to say this. It's so abrasive that I want it just to flaunt.

    [–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    The beauty of an open system is that you can do pretty much whatever you want in it.

    The horror of an open system is that you can do pretty much whatever you want in it.

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    [–] markz@suppo.fi 41 points 6 months ago

    Thanks, I love it

    [–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 39 points 6 months ago

    They are making even more cursed stuff but I haven't found a download yet... But they managed to get the taskbar to show up https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/115912856935158763 8hours ago from me commenting

    [–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)
    [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I daily drive AeroThemePlasma by WackyIdeas. Theres also a link to CapWin96's (I think thats their name) fork for Vista themeing there.

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I miss Aero but I don't know if I can go back to a light theme.

    [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    The great thing about it being KDE is that you can choose a dark colour scheme but keep the title bar theming, icons, fonts, etc the same :)

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

    True, I might experiment with it in a VM.

    [–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 32 points 6 months ago

    This is the most cursed thing I've ever laid eyes on

    [–] Leminski@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

    Oh my word.

    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Finally, a settlement to the CSD vs SSD debate we can all be unhappy with.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Who would sacrifice Christopher Street Day for an SSD? Not even worth debating.

    [–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

    If prices keep rising, next year I might be ready to eat pussy for an SSD.

    [–] eli@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

    I see the mastodan handle, but is there a git or anything to pull try out myself? Would be hilarious to show this to some coworkers

    [–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    how does this work, is this using WINE with ReactOS components and Windows 7 components or something similar?

    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    tl;dr of how this clusterfuck works: this is effectively just x11 forwarding an x server from windows to linux. the fun part is a) making gnome run with an already existing window manager (namely dwm.exe lol), b) making gnome run over x11 forwarding (it is Not a fan, last time it tried running gnome on windows this is what broke it and made it quit trying), and c) actually ripping out parts of the gnome compositor again to make dwm instead of gnome render window decorations to achieve ✨️aero gnome✨️

    https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/115912436861018228

    [–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

    I both love it and hate it so much.

    [–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 points 6 months ago

    Oh I get it now.
    Thanks!

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

    I don't get the hate, I use aerothemeplasma every day I think its neat

    [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 7 points 6 months ago

    Honestly hate all the attempts at recreating aero in linux so maybe I should try to do this in kde.

    [–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

    Themes: you can, you shouldn’t, but you will.

    [–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)
    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
    [–] verstra@programming.dev 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but I think it is speaking in first person, about itself. So it should be "I saw" and "I think", regardless of its pronouns in third person.

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    Some people, for reasons I can only speculate on, don't like speaking in first person singular. In most cases that I've seen, they use "we". I don't necessarily agree with the practice from a linguistic perspective, the English language is already a garbage fire as it is without introducing more ambivalent speech... but then I also want to go back to using "thou" for second person singular, so I'm probably not qualified to speak on the matter.

    [–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Nope. Thou is just superior. The fact there is no distinction between second person singular and plural is fucked up.

    [–] verstra@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Ok, i'm on board. Thank thou two

    [–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    Not sure but I think it should be thank thee.

    Edit: Yeah pretty sure

    [–] verstra@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Hmm, i tried to make a joke about thanking both parent posters, which makes them a plural noun, which makes thou wrong as it is only used for singular.

    But i guess i was wrong in an orthogonal dimension as well.

    [–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Nah I missed that joke because I misread two as to. As in thank me as well

    [–] verstra@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago
    [–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

    Yeah that's what confused me

    [–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    *its (not it's)

    Edit: actually the whole thing should be:

    its pronouns are it/it

    (first "it" corresponds to "he", "she",

    second "it" corresponds to "him", "her")

    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

    That was autocorrect Β¬_Β¬

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    nah second it would also correspond to he or she

    "that's cute but him thinks gnome also deserves some love too" doesn't work. it just has to correspond to he or she in the second one

    [–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I meant in the preferred pronouns "it/it". A man's pronouns are "he/him", a woman's pronouns are "she/her", so an object's pronouns would be "it/it" as opposed to "it/its".

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

    oh ok nvm then

    [–] rapchee@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

    makes sense from a catgirl

    My god... It's horrible... It's beautiful!

    [–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

    Still better than Vanilla Gnome

    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

    it using third person got me so confused. like i'd expect someone to use third person with their name at least once so that it's clear who "it" is (or any other pronoun, actually). also putting less common pronouns in the name is very helpful

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