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[edit] OS 7.6.1

I find that this is a bad screenshot for OS 7.6.1. The desktop background is a Mac OS X background, and it makes the interface look better than it is. I think if the screenshot was retaken with a more "natural" system 7 background, it wouldn't be so misleading. Also, the 3D software is similar. --Mattthemutt 21:44, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Official wallpaper support wasn't implemented until OS 8, and most computers of the era didn't operate at 1280x1024 with millions of colors. (Most were thousands of colors and up to 1024x768 or 800x600. I'm not making up the color depth names; that's what they're called in the Monitors control panel.) This screenshot shows what the system can do, but it isn't what the user would see right after installation. (If you want wallpaper on System 7, look for an extension called DeskPicture. There's a similar extension for system 6.) A new screenshot should be uploaded to demonstrate a typical stock System 7 installation. --bicostp 15:10, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

This picture was originally posted as a supplemental image of Mac OS 7.6.1 on the System 7 page, indeed intended to show what it could do. It is, in fact, quite representative of how systems often looked in high-end graphics studios, and such. The user interface isn't modified, it's the standard System 7 interface. The only thing out of the ordinary is DeskPicture, which displays the desktop picture (in this case, an image from Mac OS X). I don't know how it ended up representing System 7 all over Wikipedia, as it wasn't intended for that purpose. Other users have done this over the past year or so, but not myself. There is a more "typical" image of System 7 on Wikipedia, I have inserted it below for easy reference. --Dpaanlka 19:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Please see the System 7 Talk Page for discussion of this image as it relates to the article. Dpaanlka 15:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)