GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode [LWN.net]

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 21, 2012 19:17 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

almost.

There are some APIs that many wind 95/98 apps depended on that are broken in recent versions of windows.

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 22, 2012 0:40 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Wrong. Not "were broken in recent versions of Windows", it is "are utterly broken since WinNT 4.0 at least." Been burned by it.

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 22, 2012 22:23 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]

What APIs are broken? Appcompat issues are important.

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 23, 2012 15:47 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

Anything WordPerfect relies on? My version - certified for W2K iirc, doesn't work very well on XP. And my old version, that runs fine on Win9x, is totally broken on XP :-( I don't think I can even install that newer version on 7.

A lot of my wife's programs - sold as "runs on everything Windows" in the Vista days, is now broken on 7. And because we've got the Home version, running it in XP-compat mode isn't an option :-(

Cheers,
Wol

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 21, 2012 19:29 UTC (Wed) by Company (guest, #57006) [Link]

Of course. Just like GNOME 3 happily runs XMMS.

I want to know if Office looks like an app written in 98 if you enable the Windows Classic Theme.

GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode

Posted Nov 21, 2012 19:37 UTC (Wed) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855) [Link]

Office is also funny example, given that it has its own toolkit as well. :-D