Future AmigaOS GUI

[KPK]

Here is my immidiate reaction on that mockup gui..

* Very pretty

* Too Control Panel'ish like on the Palette Preferences. The Tabs are just glowing look-at-windows-and-draw-amiga-version.

* Too Win Explorer'ish on the Amiga Browser... Although I admit win32's explorer is quite handy. The button bar is just waste of screen space though.

* Too much details in the scroll bars. Simplicity is gone in your scrollbars..  The dark grey doesn't fit in.

* Too much theme-like in the windows titlebars. (Gradients, text outlines)

* Too much stuff in the titlebar - but I suppose you wanted to just show what should be possible..

Overall, it's very close to my vision.. But it does look a little like a theme and not a default look.. :-)

It's very nice - I am amazed I missed this one...

Keep up the good work and send it in to everyone (A inc, Hyperion)... If you make a descriptive text why a certain thing would be done this way and that way I'm sure you will make one or another designer come up with some idea even remotely related and by that you have make your contribution to the next GUI.

Peter

[KPK]

What about a task-menu instead of taskbars and startmenus..

Top Left Corner
Boing Ball when click displays a task menu
O
I want to...
 Run a command...
 Read my email...
 Browse the webb...
 Play the game...
 Connect to...
 Launch....
 Adjust Preferences...
 Perform maintenance...
 Turn off the computer...
 Logout...

Obviously when any of these are clicked the phrase continues with the menus like this...

O
I want to...
  Adjust preferences...
    For screenmode.

or

O
I want to...
  Launch...
    Wordperfect.

or maybe

O
I want to...
  Create...
    A Wordperfect document...
      From the template...
        CV.
       
or

O
I want to...
 Play the game...
   Defender of the Crown.

or

O
I want to...
 perform maintenaice...
   On filesystem

or

O
I want to...
 adjust preferences
   for harddisk partitions.

or

O
I want to...
  Connect to...
    A Telnet host.

and so on...

Ofcourse the task names might not be similar to the application name..

I want to..
 Run a command.

Would obviously open a shell or a single line shell window and

I want to...
 perform maintenance
   on filesystems

Would either open the HDToolbox or a defragger or similar...

I know this might not work in all languages since the way sentences are built might not always be in the order of the menus. There is a setting to shift between...  "Human language like" and "object order" in this menu.

The difference being

O
I want to..
 Adjust preferences
   for screenmodes.

turning into

O
 Preferences
   Screenmode


This way you literally are telling the computer what you want to do by building a sentence from a tree menu..  This menu could even be implemented as voice commands when/if that's gets common.

Spelling the word "I want to" into the mic will open the menu letting you continue with one of the options shown.

This new approach to a "Start menu" is simply just a little commoditiy and can ofcourse be removed from WBstartup for experienced users thinking things like this is for newbies.

This Boing ball (customize it to be any icon) is taking up very little of the screen and will let anything currently in the GUI remain..

You can also have Shutting down applications or a menu like...

I want to..
  Show...
     ...list of running apps...

Amiga Installer needs a few commands added to be able to add things to this launch app.

Of course it's fully customizable via a prefs interface and a "windows like" guide...

Imagine the guide first page:

title--- Add a task to the task menu...

What is most similar with what you want to do:

Launch
Draw
Compose
Create
Read
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