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Kool was how some people spelled it in the 90s in order to be “kool”.

Wow, that’s kewl!

Steve’s link partial screenshot looks different.

In addition to the transparency thing it looks like an EX0 EY0 hi-res display.

So… RISC OS Vista?

So… RISC OS Vista?

In all truth RISC OS already had a translucent Window module for RISC OS 4 (IIRC), but it doesn’t work on RISC OS 5, so, if ROOL has managed to get hold of the sources and 32bitted them it would be cool. If instead they implemented a new one, even better :)

Windows 11 does have some translucency and transparence, so not just a Vista thingy!!! :D

So… RISC OS Vista

Hmmm, Vista?
So, you’re saying this would be a version of RO that everyone happily forgets?

I only used Vista once. I marvelled at the semi translucent effects, and wondered how much processing power was being spent on making it look nice.
(I am such a nerd)

That is the accepted spelling

Funny how the Merriam-Webster website says it doesn’t exist.
I chose that source specifically because it was American.

I would add “you don’t think the OED would add a word like kool, do you?”, but it seems the OED is now behind a paywall.

Odd or catchy spelling started, I think, with the rise of advertising in the 1930s. The hippy movement in the 60s pushed it further, especially in the naming of Pop groups and record labels. Procol Harum not Procul ; Inglorious Basterds not Bastards . Do your own thing sums it up. To use conventional spelling, that was square. At least that is my analysis of the phenomenon. Commerce soon aped this trend, though I am not sure whether trade-names count as words. Now we are all doing our own thing, are we not? <vibrato>I do it my way.</vibrato> Yuck! Who needs to be understood, or love language, in the age of false news?

I would add “you don’t think the OED would add a word like kool, do you?”, but it seems the OED is now behind a paywall.

OED does not have “kool”.

I marvelled at the semi translucent effects, and wondered how much processing power was being spent on making it look nice.
(I am such a nerd)

I found it interesting how much you could speed up the GUI by killing the Themes service

My late neighbour, Walter Harris, had a PC running Vista. He used it for email and for writing books and articles, but its workings may as well have been magic. It had been set up for him by our local PC expert. When things went wrong I would be fetched, since I live on the other side of the road, and usually, after much head-scratching, and many oaths, I was able to set him back in the saddle. Otherwise the expert had to be called, which was costly. Mrs Thatcher once invited Walter to lunch because he had written a book about Britain’s first (fictional) female prime-minister long before she came to power.

Is this the ‘Announcements’ section of the forums or have I stumbled into the ‘Aldershot’ section by mistake?

Regards.

“Tomorrow, be ours” – ROOL will be talking more about this in the RISC OS London Show theatre next weekend. Hope to see you all there, or catch up online!

“Tomorrow, be ours” – ROOL will be talking more about this in the RISC OS London Show

With that phraseology, it really ought to be the south-west show

With that phraseology, it really ought to be the south-west show

Ooh arr…

Zday awoi from thee zummazet zoidah or you be on thee flair propah qwik.

Part of me really wants to believe the screenshot showing the semi-transparent iconbar is part of a soon-to-be-announced new Window Manager written in a high-level.

But, it’s probably down to the recently added functionality to change the sprite of the iconbar using the ‘tile_i’ sprite, and is probably faking the transparency.

Resolution seems to be very high. I suspect something more (vectorial icons?).

Edit: the romapps icon is not exactly the same as in ROS 5.28.

The wonders of Sprites11…