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Love me some arbitrary executed code /s (Plasmoids are not themes) (slrpnk.net)
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Cool Plasmoids on Plasma6:

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Windows used to actually have cool theming capabilities in Windows 98 (And I think ME/2000) what the hell happened to that LMAO

[–] ordellrb@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Monopoly happened

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 4 months ago

In my opinion, it peaked in Windows XP. XP's themes were way more customizable than 98's. You could patch the uxtheme DLL (disable the signature check) to allow third-party themes.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

I miss the sound themes. The animal theme was really cool with its sounds.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No it didn't. Changing a few colors isn't really the same as "cool theming"

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It did more than "a few colors", compared to today's fancy modern theming systems it was def rudimentary, but with a single click Win 98 would change colors, the cursor, the entire sound pallette and even button images iirc. I was particularly fond of the Computer theme and the Space theme lol

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're right except button images. That wasn't a thing. But you could change fonts which I'd forgotten. My point though is that the things they let you change were pretty limited.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

my memories are kinda foggy, but using Plus! in 98, some themes (like the space one) did change the dialog images, too, didn't they? (so the info bubble, red circle X, yellow triangle exclamation mark etc)

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That might have been true. I'm referring to the settings you could change in control panel, without any additional software.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't considered Microsoft Plus! as a separate software for some reason, but fair point.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah I think some PCs came with Plus bundled/pre-installed. I got a copy from a friend at one point years into the 98 era, but otherwise never used Plus.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I remember running a 3rd party shell in windows 2000. It worked most of the time and had some cool widgets. When it crashed explorer would take its place.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I used some theme apps on windows. Sadly, they crashed semi often and were a bit slow the rest of the time

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Oh yeah, they crashed constantly and would run slow af if you restarted them after a crash, without rebooting