Preliminary OS4 GUI Screenshots

[Valan]

I think they are trying to reasure the comunity that things can look as promised. These shots are to make it obvious what goes where. I think these are from the programming team rather than the designer.

A professional will use contrasting colours to 'map out' areas. So this look is par for the course as far as development goes. I guess the real look is hidden away and a professional would be hard at work generating new themes.

Don't expect the final look of OS4 to be unwrapped until just before it is released. Remember there were skins of Mac OSX out for Windows months before it was released for the Mac.

Hold tight nearly there.

[Valan]

...and historically the old Workbench >1.3 were always very dull without some extra
work...)

I agree, the original WB colours were far better than the greys of WB2.0 +.

The colour scheme of the original WB is being used by Apple and Microsoft, so It seems that it is very modern.
Personally I would like OS4 to use these colours again to bring the original Amiga look bang up to date. In a sense this would tell past users that a real Amiga is back while underlining the great heritage the OS has with what are considered modern functions.