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		easygenes on July 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MaXX Interactive Desktop: A Re-Implementation of t... Never used IRIX, but I genuinely really like the icon set in that first screenshot. Also, SGI Screen is still one of my favorite fixed width fonts. Also I think FVWM was heavily inspired from this, and I’ve used that as a very efficient UI over VNC (gradients, images, rounded corners, etc. are expensive in terms of bandwidth. The minimalist aesthetic of this interface conveys a lot of structure in little data).

hakfoo on July 4, 2020 [–]

FVWM was more a mwm (Motif) clone. It dates to the '90s, back before OpenMotif or Lesstif and having something with even that aesthetic was a step up.

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