window shopping
<jargon> A term used among users of WIMP environments like the X Window
System or the Macintosh at the US Geological Survey for extended experimentation
with new window colours, fonts, and icon shapes. This activity can take up hours
of what might otherwise have been productive working time. "I spent the
afternoon window shopping until I found the coolest shade of green for my active
window borders --- now they perfectly match my medium slate blue background."
Serious window shoppers will spend their days with bitmap editors, creating new
and different icons and background patterns for all to see. Also: "window
dressing", the act of applying new fonts, colours, etc.
See fritterware, compare macdink.
[Jargon File]
(1996-07-08)
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