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  bmurphy1976
  I want more stuff like this. The era 20 years ago (e.g. Enlightenment) was way more fun than the bland monotonic design we have these days. If you like bland modern design, great, that should be an option as well, but we should still have good variety.
• nirav72
  I thought we were done with the skeuomorphism craze back in the late 00s. (Thanks Apple). Is the trend coming back?
• itomato
  I'd be into something as useful as Quartz Composer was for Desktop Widgets, but not a full skeuomorphic desktop.Indigo Magic or CDE is as close as I'd want to go with that concept.2004 was a long time ago, and I suppose what is old can be new (again).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQPTtdzBig
• uolmir
  This is very funny. But I think it would make me feel like I was working inside of Papers Please or some similar game.
• seemaze
  Man, first Felix Reiseberg[0], then OpenCode 2.0[1], and now this in the last 24 hrs. Really giving off heavy Myst vibes. They are briefly interesting encounters, buy I deeply hope this isn't a legitimate UI trend.It's hardly even skeuomorphism, it's a almost digital twin rendered with Phong.[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50082470[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094994
• lpghatguy
  The README being so full of AI prose is super grating.
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  Retr0id
  > the kind iOS 6 had> The room is ray-tracedimho, part of the charm of iOS6 was that everything was baked into native-resolution textures.
• treetalker
  > DEsk is Desktop Environment and desk in one wordThey dropped the ball:DESk would have been Desktop Environment, desk, and Skeumorphic in one word.
• ragazzina
  > Windows are sheets of paper on a walnut desk.The calculator is a sheet of paper..
• mcv
  This looks like peak skeuomorphism. I like it, but ray-tracing the desktop sounds like overkill.
• hliyan
  This adds to a belief that I have that UI design undergoes cycles like fashion, just that we haven't yet seen a complete cycle.
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  bovermyer
  I love this. Hopefully we start to see more experiments like this.
• hotelsacher
  That control panel looks fantastic! Too bad I don't wayland. Last I checked, Mathematica doesn't like it.
• iamnothere
  This is neat, it’s not for me (I prefer extreme minimalism) but I could see how some would prefer it. I like how we’re getting more desktop options now thanks to wlroots.
• ilaksh
  I think AR/XR glasses are going to start to become popular in the next couple of years and I think some mixed reality shells will have more physical/3d interfaces.
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  brink
  This is lovely. I really hope society returns to chasing beauty again. We need it.
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  nntwozz
  Flashback to TabWorks.Compaq Presario 486 1994, I was 10.And yes, played Myst on it.Tempus fugit…
• V__
  I can imagine this being really helpful for beginners and kids. It's hard to grok what windows and tabs are etc. without any context.
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  RugnirViking
  the "paper windows" idea doesn't seem to have been done with as much soul as the rest of the ui. Just a turned up corner. I reckon something done there could really tie this together
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  acheron
  Fantastic. Giving me memories of MS Bob. Put a talking animal assistant in the corner and you’ve got it. Oh, and you could connect the assistant to an LLM of course.
• lelanthran
  This is pretty cool! I'd use this, once out of beta.(Bonus points for not throwing AI-tells at everyone in the README - much appreciated).
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  PanicAdmin
  I see that this very bad idea is returning from the 90's.
• Arubis
  I can feel my shoulders unlocking looking at the screenshots.
• esperent
  I love this, at least from the screenshots. I'll test it out tomorrow. I hope this kind of design makes a comeback.
• tillmannhgl
  Sweet
• Beijinger
  memory 4 GB (DEsk itself 200-450 MB)This makes it interesting. I may try it out. Moksha uses 200 MB to 300 MB of RAM
• shaolinspirit
  fascinating, I recently was also exploring various skeuomorphic design pattern in Flutter and now this!
• xbar
  Love it. Maximize skeuomorphic design.
• jacknews
  How come the 'documents' are floating above the wood surface creating such deep drop shadows?
• mrsssnake
  Skeuomorphic design was a solution to teaching the customer how to use the digital product, but I wish we have more of its side effects like shadows, icons that pop and other things that are pleasant for the eye and depth.I don't know if it's just because it was better or am I just tired of the current white (like #FFFFFF white) backgrounds with everything flat and not connected. I would like my browser tabs to be in the shape of a physical tab in notebooks.
• DonHopkins
  In Brett Victor's 2011 essay, "A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design", he laid out the foundation for his critique of skeuomorphic design. He believes hands are our future.https://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDes...On the visual pretense: "Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade."On touchscreens mimicking real objects without haptics: "Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It's a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best."On why this design path is short-sighted: "To me, claiming that Pictures Under Glass is the future of interaction is like claiming that black-and-white is the future of photography. It's obviously a transitional technology. And the sooner we transition, the better."
• mrsssnake
  The thing I hate with vibed apps the most is zero seconds spend on how things around what is being build are already structured and what problems was already solved, just focusing on shiny result.`sudo sh scripts/install_debian.sh`, a 583 lines long script, basically now a whole software just to handle the installation of this project on one distribution, seriously? If we vibecode already, just do the normal packaging.
• ranger_danger
  Yes! Please bring back the soul we had with retro OS GUIs (and the speed)... it's time for a resurgence. Especially with new systems/RAM/GPUs/etc. not being a thing for quite a while for a lot of people now.
• diegolas
  god please no
• KerrAvon
  okay, now use this for a month and report backI don't hate skeuomorphic design but come on man
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