New Screenshots of OS4

[Rogue]

t still suggests me that there was no graphic artist present in the initial design phase

Actually, there was.

It's rather obvious that some people will not like it. I'm afraid that GUI's is something that you can start a Jihad with. There are actually people that like MacOS' Aqua or XP's Luna...

[Rogue]

pity it's a grey theme,

As always, you can change the colors :-)

Actually, the gradient stuff is really flexible. While you can specify RGB values for start and end, you can also define Pen numbers, which means that if you e.g. change pen 3 (the light blue) to something else, the whole gradient will adjust. That makes it easier to change appearance quickly.

Also, what is not shown in the shots is that you can impose the gradients onto a texture, that is you could have a gradient covering the metal texture like the one in the background.

[Rogue]

...running on one PPC card type in a couple of carefully selected machines.

Given the fact how many "experts" bitched about the impossibility of us doing this at all, I am quite content with it. The other things come next.

And please, no "it will not work, you will not make it".

We will :-)