I'd be into something as useful as Quartz Composer was for Desktop Widgets, but not a full skeuomorphic desktop.

Indigo Magic or CDE is as close as I'd want to go with that concept.

2004 was a long time ago, and I suppose what is old can be new (again).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQPTtdzBig

Fantastic. Giving me memories of MS Bob. Put a talking animal assistant in the corner and you’ve got it. Oh, and you could connect the assistant to an LLM of course.

I thought we were done with the skeuomorphism craze back in the late 00s. (Thanks Apple). Is the trend coming back?

Wrong abstraction! I love it… But wrong abstraction!

Do you want your desktop to feel like a 90s adventure mystery game by Sierra.. Well boy do I have the desktop for you!

I think AR/XR glasses are going to start to become popular in the next couple of years and I think some mixed reality shells will have more physical/3d interfaces.

HN crowd be like: THANKS GOD APPLE WILL NEVER OPEN-SOURCE THE DE SO WE CAN'T HAVE THEMES FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO WANTS THEM

I can imagine this being really helpful for beginners and kids. It's hard to grok what windows and tabs are etc. without any context.

This adds to a belief that I have that UI design undergoes cycles like fashion, just that we haven't yet seen a complete cycle.

This is pretty cool! I'd use this, once out of beta.

(Bonus points for not throwing AI-tells at everyone in the README - much appreciated).