Re: Future AmigaOS GUI

[Rodney]

Well, i dont mind the OS4 look. Although the brush metal look doesnt fancy me. They couldhave kept it a bit simplier...

SimoAmis concept is brilliant, although, its not simple enough. I think its great but SimoAmis concept goes deeper then just a GUI, it also questions the functionality of AmigaOS (HTML rendering shell?)...

I think the best thing Simo can do is to turn that beutiful concept into a skin. And also, creat some icons. Simos concept is great, i'd use it, but i wouldnt have picked it for a default GUI.

Basicly, i think the concept is alittle too good . Too pretty and very colourful and that puts a lot of people off. I think a very simple interface is what AmigaOSneeds. And they got it.

Simo, you must turn itinto a skin. And you must creat some icons.  I'd be a very very very popular skin and icon set. Many people are going to want to change the GUI as soon as they get their OS4. Yours as i see it, would be the number one option Go for it dude!

[Rodney]

kolla wrote:
"Turn it into a skin"?

OS4 does not support "skins"

What it does support is "themes" of icons, colours and gadgets and bitmaps.

If it was "skins" then different skins would be able to place the gadgets on different locations, replace entire GUI layouts and so forth.

Ok, so i got my meanings mixed up... shesh!

I think you knew what i ment anyway!!! Ie make them into themes and icon sets!!!

Also, the scope of this concept picture goes beyond the "look", and I doubt that was done unintentionally. It shows functionality that should very well be avaible.

Yes, Simo pointed this out earlier

Applets for the the screen bar, status bar in a WB window and the output renderer for  the shell (well, OS4 _does_ have an xml parser buildt in now, right? Why not put it to use?  :-D )

An XML parser is not a render. You'd need an HTML engine or something equivilent to do it. Or something much heavier then a parser. XML by its self is just data.

I'd suggest to have an HTML render that supports XML-XSL and CSS and allows the programer to define an XML document and an XSL OR CSS style sheet to accompany it.  so i can render the output of the program. But then again, thats what we have a GUI for isnt it ...

Once again, some themes and icons sets would be great!!!