Corel Linux first launched in 1999, from the same company that at the time owned the WordPerfect word processing software. While it was made to compete with Microsoft's Windows it quickly died off.
Both are old and heavily feature grey colour schemes with small, simple icons. I think that’s about it. Unless you were around in the 90s, anything pre-XP and post-DOS will probably either be recognised as “Windows 95” or “very old MacOS”.
I think BeOS would’ve wished it looked like Windows 95, because Windows 95’s UI was one of the most important developments in computer GUIs until the introduction of capacitive touch screen phones with the LG Prada.
Yeah I guess that’s my fault here that I lived through the 90s starting with windows 3.1. I saw Teleshopping praising and selling the illegal BeOS variant Zeta. But I always found it’s dockable windows very cool. Something that no other OS ever did, not even today.
Does it? With Dockable Windows I mean the following: you have a file browser and a text editor and you snap them together so the titlebar acts as a tabbar and you can tab between the file browser and the text editor in the same window.
Tabbing is a nice feature that allows you to tab windows together. This can be combined with the “autogrouping” feature that is provided via the apps-file. This will make certain applications tab together by default.
Tabs can eiher be embedded into the window’s titlebar as shown in the upper screenshot or they can appear as little tabs at the outside of a window such as the lower example. The position and size of the outside-tabs is customizable.
Both are old and heavily feature grey colour schemes with small, simple icons. I think that’s about it. Unless you were around in the 90s, anything pre-XP and post-DOS will probably either be recognised as “Windows 95” or “very old MacOS”.
I think BeOS would’ve wished it looked like Windows 95, because Windows 95’s UI was one of the most important developments in computer GUIs until the introduction of capacitive touch screen phones with the LG Prada.
Yeah I guess that’s my fault here that I lived through the 90s starting with windows 3.1. I saw Teleshopping praising and selling the illegal BeOS variant Zeta. But I always found it’s dockable windows very cool. Something that no other OS ever did, not even today.
Didn’t Fluxbox have dockable windows?
Does it? With Dockable Windows I mean the following: you have a file browser and a text editor and you snap them together so the titlebar acts as a tabbar and you can tab between the file browser and the text editor in the same window.
Yep, that’s Fluxbox tabs.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240202172611/http://fluxbox.org/features/
That’s cool. Thanks for sharing!