5 retro themes

With the transition to each more visually animated desktop theme and graphical interface, it is easy to forget how quickly the themes that we use now have evolved. So here are some retro desktop themes in case all modern themes haven't made you forget about BeOS.

Windows 2000

Let's start with this boring gray Windows theme. If you wish, you can almost completely recreate it in Ubuntu using the Gnome Redmond theme, a similar window manager and a set of icons. Follow the installation instructions here.

Nextstep

NeXTSTEP was a promising UNIX-like operating system, released in 1988 and formally ending its history in 1996. NeXTSTEP is best known as the ancestor of the somewhat famous Mac OS X.

NeXTSTEP has a very distinctive appearance. So characteristic that it served as the basis for the semi-port of the project, called GNUStep and created in order to bring the appearance of a long-forgotten OS on Linux.



The necessary files and additional information are here.

Beos

The nearly 20-year-old BeOS had an uncluttered design and graphic interface designed on the principles of clarity and cleanliness, and for many BeOS lovers (for example, for the Haiku project), the graphic interface remains a distinctive part of the BeOS heritage.



Download - here

AmigaOS

AmigaOS 4, perhaps, should not be classified as “retro”, because the last update of this operating system came out only 56 days ago. However, AmigaOS is nothing more than nostalgic for most.



This is the GTK version of the “zami” AmigaOS 4 theme. Download - here

OS / 2

IBM's OS / 2 - initially developed in conjunction with Microsoft - was a very bright phenomenon. Once it was even called the operating system of the future. But she did not become one, losing the competition to Windows. OS / 2 had a good graphical interface for its time and for those who remember OS / 2 - its GTK version is lower.



Download - here

Afterword

The author really wanted to include the old-school Acorn in this list, but he did not find the corresponding GTK theme. Similarly for the classic Mac OS theme.