<story><title>Windows 98 Icons (2015)</title><url>https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srvmshr</author><text>Getting reminded of late 90s &amp;amp; early 2000s design choices, the glassy feel of Bluecurve icon themes of Redhat Linux looked way ahead of their competition [1] Most people didn&amp;#x27;t have access to Classic Macs OS 8.5~9, which probably had beautiful icon sets too (Aqua?). As a highschooler, this looked so futuristic &amp;amp; colorful as compared to 2000&amp;#x2F;XP desktop themes &amp;amp; icons.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Adding as postscript: Is there anything similar which would come close to Bluecurve today? TIA if there is anything in reader&amp;#x27;s minds.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;71&amp;#x2F;GNOME_2.2_on_Red_Hat_Linux_9_--_2003-02.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;71&amp;#x2F;GNOME_2....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;b&amp;#x2F;b8&amp;#x2F;Fedora-yarrow-bluecurve.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;b&amp;#x2F;b8&amp;#x2F;Fedora-y...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lqet</author><text>&amp;gt; As a highschooler, this looked so futuristic &amp;amp; colorful as compared to 2000&amp;#x2F;XP desktop themes &amp;amp; icons.&lt;p&gt;Exactly my experience. The first time I installed Linux when I was around 15 I was surprised how modern, &amp;quot;sharp&amp;quot; and professional everything looked compared to Windows XP.&lt;p&gt;(The default Windows XP design was really the beginning of a downward curve for Windows designs. Windows 98 looked like a tool, Windows XP looked like a toy, which is a shame because Windows XP was a vastly superior (and in my experience ridiculously stable) OS. I always used the &amp;quot;classic&amp;quot; Win 98 design).</text></comment>
<story><title>Windows 98 Icons (2015)</title><url>https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>srvmshr</author><text>Getting reminded of late 90s &amp;amp; early 2000s design choices, the glassy feel of Bluecurve icon themes of Redhat Linux looked way ahead of their competition [1] Most people didn&amp;#x27;t have access to Classic Macs OS 8.5~9, which probably had beautiful icon sets too (Aqua?). As a highschooler, this looked so futuristic &amp;amp; colorful as compared to 2000&amp;#x2F;XP desktop themes &amp;amp; icons.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Adding as postscript: Is there anything similar which would come close to Bluecurve today? TIA if there is anything in reader&amp;#x27;s minds.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;71&amp;#x2F;GNOME_2.2_on_Red_Hat_Linux_9_--_2003-02.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;71&amp;#x2F;GNOME_2....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;b&amp;#x2F;b8&amp;#x2F;Fedora-yarrow-bluecurve.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;b&amp;#x2F;b8&amp;#x2F;Fedora-y...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mdasen</author><text>Bluecurve was amazing. For me, nothing in the Linux world has equaled it since. It was so nice and polished with thoughtful colors and design. It was quite similar in colors to Mac OS 8 &amp;amp; 9 (the platinum gray, the purple-ish blue).</text></comment>