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window shopping
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window shopping /n./ [US Geological Survey] Among users of
WIMP environments like X or the Macintosh, extended
experimentation with new window colors, 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, colors, etc. See fritterware, compare
macdink.
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