It’s hard to belive given the current state of the industry, but there was a time in the 1990s when even large commercial software companies allowed you to customise your desktop. The horror! Even moreso, some of these companies even offered first-party visual enhancement packs with themes you could install.

Plus! 95 deserves its own dedicated post at some point. In the meantime, I was updating my first ever computer and decided I needed a new desktop theme. I hadn’t used Da Vinci for a long time, so here it is:

Between this, the themes in Mac OS 8, and the Fluxbox themes on every NetBSD partition, I think I have my 90s visuals sorted. I’m half tempted to take some of these assets and colours and make an .Xresources file for no good reaso…

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