OSNews > Thread > "RE: Blue" by Ronald Vos

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Mar 2006 11:11 UTC, submitted by jeanmarc

People love screenshots. It's probably because humans are a very visually orientated species. When it comes to software, people claim to be able to judge entire products, just by looking at a few screenshots. Especially for those people: 85 screenshots of Haiku running all sorts of applications. For the people who've been living under a rock the past 5 years: Haiku is an attempt to recreate BeOS as an open source product. And for the people who don't know BeOS-- click here.

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RE: Blue

by Ronald Vos on Thu 16th Mar 2006 13:28 UTC in reply to "Blue"

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2005-07-06

Why are all Desktops Blue? Windows, MacOSX, this one, heck even Amiga OS1 was blue!

Not as depressing as black, not as painful to the eyes as pure white, not the agravation of red/orange/yellow, and none of the hippy connotations of green. Blue is the most neutral colour that allows you to see both black and white letters well.

Olive-green would be better though.

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RE[2]: Blue

by AmigaRobbo on Thu 16th Mar 2006 21:28 in reply to "RE: Blue"

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2005-11-15

I know this is vering off subject, but.. Even the C64 was blue by default, which I think meant the Vic 20 was as well. It's only really Ubuntu that goes against the grain these days...

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RE[2]: Blue

by Luposian on Fri 17th Mar 2006 01:16 in reply to "RE: Blue"

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2005-07-27

"...and none of the hippy connotations of green."

Watch out about talking negatively about green... the Atari ST GEM desktop was green and it's a fond memory I will always remember... :-)

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