XDelusion: Ok so you guys would not mind if Amiga OS looked like this either then?
[Shot of DOS screen]
Wow, that looks just like a shot of the Elate shell! :-)
Seriously, I think even the standard look of AmigaOS 2.0 is pretty good as far as looks go. Acceptable colors, good window sizes, readable fonts, no extraneous borders, and so on. What really matters is layout and technical writing. A requester that says "Do you want to keep this file, Yes/No" is a turn-off. A window with tiny fonts and 50 buttons is a turn-off. Inconsistant terminology and sloppy alignment is a turn-off. There's a hell of a lot more to a GUI than colors and borders.
Would I use an OS that has such an awful-looking interface? My first reaction is to say yes, because the look isn't as important as the layout and design. However, any GUI that looks THAT bad tells me the developers regard GUIs as an afterthought, and therefore, I probably won't like the layout and design at all.
So, I guess my answer is no.
Of course, I used UNIX in college, and am quite familiar with that GUI, so I have to admit that I HAVE used it... I just didn't like it one bit!
