If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?

[iamaboringperson]

if the amigaos or morphos(whichever you prefer) had a plain dull unconfigurable GUI, would you still use, buy, and like the os?

if it looked like this:

or this:


i would like to know how much would it matter to you?
would you give up and go to another os, try and program some patches, or otherwise be dissatisfied by amigaos?

[iamaboringperson]

Billsey wrote:
To me, a GUI needs to do one thing, and one thing only: Transparently link me to the functionality of the applications running on the OS. You could call it, “Do your job quietly and get out of the way!”. The GUI should, nay must not be a distraction. In truth, it should be like a good referee, where you almost don't even notice that they're even there at all.

That would be a good GUI.

yep. im completly with you bilsey,

i have nothing against a pretty GUI, nor a customizable one
its just that it seems that people these days pick/judge an OS by its GUI/screenshots
to me, thats really sad...

a gui should be easy to use <- thats probably my number 1 rule for guis

too many people are worried about whats on the surface
computing is about doing things, and sure, the way it is done is also important, but the GUI is not the part that does it, its everything behind.

 :-)

[iamaboringperson]

In fact thats not a GUI at all, thats a graphical shell.

as many of you have guessed... those grabs are indeed just from X-Windows window managers
i was refering to the appearance rather than the software itsself

[iamaboringperson]

XDelusion

if amigaos had the choice of fullscreen text mode command line, i would love it!
of course, i would still want an optional gui

the first thing i do when i boot up my amiga is double click on the shell icon i have on my desktop - thats the only way

[iamaboringperson]

I do not know if classic CLI had the ability to run multiple commands in the back ground from one terminal window, but that should also be a feature, though I forget how to do that in Linux too. :/

amiga os could always do that, using the run command:
run >nill: cruddyprogram

linux does it by '&' on the end of the line

[iamaboringperson]

XDelusion wrote:
No wait, would you use it if it looked like this?

http://intyos.free.fr/index.php?page=shots


Hey it multi-tasks!

:-o  WOW!
from now on, that is my fav os/gui etc...

i just love the intellivision
BTW... i was playing astrosmash the other day and got quite a bit over a million points!!!!

[iamaboringperson]

alx wrote:

buh, what is exactly the point of this post?

IMO it's just interesting to see how people value GUI over the workings of an OS and visa-versa.  It's a hyperthetical question - a not-wonderful GUI that cannot be configured (ie you cannot just say "I don't like it, but I'd change it).

And, of course, AOS and MOS won't have a GUI like that.  Well they'd better not :-)

thats my whole point of this post
to see how vain people are about the appearance of the UI
what im really interested to know is who here choses their OS mainly on the appearance of the UI
would you chose win-2000 or win-xp based on the default look?

im not so much against a nice looking gui
my fav. gui appearance is the mac os 7.x one, followed by mac os 8


quite frankly... my answer is: i would continue to use amigaos, just so long as it was the same sort of fast/small/efficient OS