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Offline SlimJimTopic starter

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Community input for the "standard look" of AOS4?
« on: November 23, 2002, 02:46:08 PM »
It has been made quite clear that these screenshots don't
represent the final look.
 
But towards the actual release of AOS4, we will want to
have some sort of nice "standard" setup. I'm sure the AOS
GUI developers are good at what they do. But this is an
 aspect that differs widely from user to user (hence
 configurability, but we need some common scheme too,
to present at shows, and historically the old Workbench
>1.3 were always very dull without some extra work...)
 
Why not, when the interface-look itself is ready, give the
community a mockup of the OS (on a webpage) with a list
of the possible gadgets, so that we can cut&paste and
suggest our favourite colours/gadgets to use as a standard
for the final release. Who else to be allow input on this
 matter other than us, the community after all - and a nice
possible PR-stunt for AInc ('chosen by the people' and all
that).
 
Well, it's an idea anyway,
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Re: Community input for the "standard look" of AOS4?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2002, 03:15:34 PM »
Nice, but this a PURE mockup, is it not? Nothing to do with
how AOS4 will actually be finalized, but a dream-version of
it (and a nice one by all means).
 I was referring to being able to actually suggest which
 ACTUAL setup were to be used for the final release, by
modifying a picture on-line, using components known to ACTUALLY BE in the release.
 
We have so many graphically talented people in this community,
it would be a good opportunity for AInc to arrange this,
I think.
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Re: Community input for the "standard look" of AOS4?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2002, 03:33:48 PM »
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They have tried this already with the "I am Amiga" club and were shot down in flames. I think that AInc will be moaned at if they get a professional, an good Amiga artist or Tim, Dick and Harry.



It's not the same thing. Leave the actual design for the pros, by all means.
 
I was talking about the community having a say on which combination
of the already implemented configuration options were
to be chosen as the "default" one.
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SlimJim