/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9158021
gtk's been a lost cause for over a decade, qt isn't much better, trinity can clone the classic theme somewhat accurately but that's because it's an ancient xorg + qt3-only fork of kde3 from the early 2000s, icewm is cute but even that's far from perfect. all of this would be less annoying if the win95 desktop wasn't over 25 years old by now. serenityos is a more accurate windows 95 bootleg than almost everything i've seen on linux and that's being written from the ground up
>>9158251
off the top of my head:
>fonts always look weird and inaccurate, even if you install tahoma and microsoft sans serif using .ttf files pulled from a wangblows iso
>start menu is almost always inaccurate (the default xfce4 launcher comes sorta close but it's missing the caption on the left, and half of the screenshots i see use the whisker menu instead)
>icon size + font size + spacing is always too fucking big and the weird rounded font label that xfce uses doesn't look right
>no color scheme customization or default win9x color schemes out of the box except for the default windows standard theme
>taskbar systray is almost never sunken in as it should be on windows, i almost always see just the clock sunken in or absolutely nothing sunken in at all. also the taskbar handles look weird
>xfwm4 doesn't support horizontal gradients on window titlebars because it sucks, so using win98/2k-style gradient color schemes is impossible without switching to marco or whatever
redmond97 seems marginally better but i'm sure that has it's own issues too. it just feels wrong to me in a way that using the classic theme on windoze never did, and it probably always will because i'm a stubborn old sperg who hates change (although to be fair, the classic theme isn't doing much better on windows itself these days)