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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>window shopping</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="windoid.html" title="windoid"/><link rel="next" href="Windowsitis.html" title="Windowsitis"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">window shopping</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="windoid.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Windowsitis.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="window-shopping"/><dt xmlns="" id="window-shopping"><b>window shopping</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [US Geological Survey] Among users of
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<a href="WIMP-environment.html"><i class="glossterm">WIMP environment</i></a>s like <a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> or the Macintosh,
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extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
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This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been
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productive working time. “<span class="quote">I spent the afternoon window shopping
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until I found the coolest shade of green for my active window borders
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— now they perfectly match my medium slate blue background.</span>”
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Serious window shoppers will spend their days with bitmap editors, creating
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new and different icons and background patterns for all to see. Also:
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<span class="firstterm">window dressing</span>, the act of applying
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new fonts, colors, etc. See <a href="../F/fritterware.html"><i class="glossterm">fritterware</i></a>, compare
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<a href="../M/macdink.html"><i class="glossterm">macdink</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="windoid.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="Windowsitis.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">windoid<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Windowsitis</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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