masukomi
@thomasfuchs Just before Apple bought NeXT they they were working on a new version of the OS and putting out screenshots of the amazingly customizable / themeable UI. Like ridiculously wiggly window edges and stuff like that. Alas, they bought NeXT and it never shipped.
Do you remember what that new UI stuff was called? Was it just Rhapsody? or was there a special name for the theming stuff?
masukomi
@thomasfuchs hah. just edited my post after stumbling across that. I think it WAS part of rhapsody but i'm not finding anything like what I'm remembering in screenshots i'm seeing for rhapsody. Not sure if there was a special name for the theming stuff or if it was just bundled up in the OS itself without a separate name.
masukomi
@thomasfuchs my memory is that they were struggling with making the next os (next not NeXT) and it was dragging, so they were putting these screenshots to help keep people excited about impending mac coolness, but that no-one ever got to actually use it outside of apple.
BUT I could be totally misremembering the timeline.
masukomi
@thomasfuchs I don't _think_ that was it. I have this distinct memory of wiggly (sine-wave like) colorful window borders that looked like tubes as one of the demo screenshots. Not suggesting that that is what the OS would look like but that you could _make_ the OS look like that.
Digging a little more, i think this was _just_ before rhapsody. It's what they were working on when they were still debating if they should buy BeOS or NeXT.
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