Future AmigaOS GUI

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Can everyone remember that the big changes in the GUI will be coming in later versions of the OS - but the features already in (ie the gradient/bitmap skinning) are great.  I personally think that the OS4.x team should be looking at new ways of doing things like viewing folders instead of parroting windoze like Linux desktops.  The big changes in functionality can only come with a new WB.

Besides, I like the default theme :-D

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seems like most guys dislikes the screenshots sent out by Hyperion so far

I certainly wouldn't go that far - most people on the original news thread seemed to like it.

Even assuming that everyone did hate it, then I don't think such a poll would do any good.  Hyperion simply don't have the time to do the changes nessecery.  The thing is, many of the things in SimoAmi's concept (Screen bar holding applets,  explorer-type shell etc) would require a re-write of parts of intuition and workbench, but at the end of the day the main focus of OS4 is to migrate to PPC.  An overhaul of WB will come later.  They only thing they could probably change is the colours - new icons and gadgets would take time.  As B00tDisk said:

Get the damned OS up, running, and stable on the many varied PPC platforms first. Hell's Bells, if it looks like 1.3 but runs stably, then so be it.

And remember that no-one's favourite GUI is going to be the same as anyone else's; there will always be compromise.  At least the new intuition is flexible enough to impose your own personality on it.

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I agree completely.  In fact,  I did a similar thing; does anyone prefer this to this?