Subj : Tastes Like Windows
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Nov 29 2019 08:43:00


Hi Ky!

 >   KM> https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/iscreenshots.html
 >   KM> Looks like Windows, eh?
 >   KM> It's not. It's q4os linux with the Trinity desktop, morphed into
 >   KM> every sort of pseudo-Windows.
 >   KM> https://q4os.org/
 > If the desktop displays are copyrighted, trademarked, or under whatever
 > protection I think there might be a cease and desist in the near future!
 KM> Nope, you can't protect the look of a desktop. I vaguely recall
 KM> that was settled when ...um, Lotus? threw a legal fit because
 KM> some other company used an interface functionally identical to
 KM> Lotus 1-2-3. Basically you can recreate anything like that, much
 KM> as you can arrange the alphabet until you achieve the phone book
 KM> -- so long as you don't copy the original itself.

OK, probably also explains why some grocery store house/generic brands 
look so close to the national brands they're emulating.  Did know 
numbers couldn't be patented/trademarked/something: "Pentium" came about
because '586' was deemed not able to be protected.




 > Personally I'm not so sure on Desktop images: with my usage I generally
 > have them covered with multiple windows, though I do use them as a
 > visual indentifier.
 KM> I want it restful to the eye, which usually means not too ugly. I
 KM> like how Openbox names the virtual desktops as Air, Earth, Fire,
 KM> and Water, so I stole that, and keep meaning to find each its own
 KM> appropriate wallpaper.

Plus you need to find the appropriate doo-wop music segments for the 
various notifications.  (OK, so that might make more sense knowing 
Pandora was playing oldies, so the group Earth Wind and Fire came to
mind.  ...Plus that group isn't 'doo-wop'....)

The thing I usually find wrong with desktop pictures is the icons tend 
to blend in with the picture.  XP's 'Bliss' is suitable bland yet 
'contrasty' to the icons; Ubuntu 18.04's Bionic Beaver is also fine; for
Ubuntu 16.04 I used a dark-almost-black red Desktop display from 
NoobsLab.com, from their 'Black Wallpapers'' collection.

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.... I plead contemporary insanity.
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