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Back in the day there were not much colors to choose from, in case you even had color monitor.

Especially with Sun where the vast majority of color frame buffers were 8-bit throughout the 1990's

I was about to respond with "Hey, I'm actually fond of those color palettes...". But, then, I realized really what i have a fondness for is the nostalgia of those times, not necessarily the colors or palettes... Good times!

That was VUE, CDE was a further development from this, with input from Sun and IBM. VUE was only from HP. But most of the visual stuff came right from there except the styling.

VUE used fruity colours and sans-serif fonts. CDE was businesslike and with serif fonts.

I greatly preferred VUE but I can imagine people found it ugly.

I wish someone would make an NsCDE port that looks like VUE <3