My review of Pegasos+MorphOS

[Leo42]

                       Hi,

Good review (and perfect English translation...) but:

Please stop making ugly screenshots :-(

I know MUI prefs could be changed so that it looks better (should I say "less ugly" ?) BUT there will still be the "coherence" problem common to AmigaOS/MorphOS...

MUI gadgets are *limited* to 16 colour MWB palette (you cannot use any brush (8/16/24 bit) as an arrow for example...)...

See this screenshot/customized gui to understand better what I mean:

http://nogfx.free.fr/morphos/gui_problem.png (~350kb)

NOTE: with this grab I'm trying to show how a coherent GUI should look like... You may like it or not but at least it is coherent...

Regards,
Leo.

(I'm not trying to say they did a bad job: until now, MorphOS team did a great job... But before adding shadows to cursors, menus,.. they should correct these GUI/MUI limits...)

[Leo42]

>I don't understand your remark.
> On that picture I see you aplied one of the skins from the FTP-site. It is ofcourse nice, but...

The problem is that ONLY window gadgets are fully skinnable and MUI has big limitations: you *cannot* use any 8/16/24bit brush as mui buttom, arrows,... and mui gadgets (up to now) MUST use the MagicWB 16 colour palette...

=> This results in a non-coherent GUI where you have:

 .new (nice) true color pictures as window gadgets
 .old (looks ugly in a 16/32bit desktop) 4bit brushes as GUI gadgets (in the best case: standard gadtools gadgets are even worst...)

=> new window gadgets + old gui gadgets=an ugly mixed GUI :-(
=> See bottom window in my screenshot...


=> in the top-window, I edited the picture so that the window theme MATCHES the GUI theme... (well, I tried, I'm not that good at 2D drawing )
=> A fully skinnable GUI could look like this...

Hope you'll see what I mean...

Regards,
Leo.

[Leo42]

>I have to make you a compliment, because the first time I thought the first window was the actual window after applying the skin.

Unfortunately: this is the first image we get when applying the theme ;(

(by playing with mui prefs you could have something better but still very far from the first window ;()

Leo.