I went through the screenshots again this morning ....
I am very happy to see a working GUI that reminds me so much of the familiar AmigaOS 3.1 Workbench that I run on my Amiga 2000HD, yet at the same time offers many enhancements provided by add-on programs which I could not run on my old machine.
Let me explain ...
My Amiga 2000HD does not have an accelerator, ... it has a 68000 CPU, 1M Chip RAM and 4M Fast RAM, so I can only run programs written purely for the 68000 CPU. Anything else will eventually crash.
Over the years, I have tried out several excellent add-on programs to enhance my Workbench and add extra functionality. However, the system often crashed and I ran into difficulties finding purely 68000 versions of these programs.
Eventually, I settled on a simple "look" very similar to the default AmigaOS 3.1 Workbench, ... white menus with black writing along the top of the screen, active window with light-blue border and plain grey background, inactive windows with plain grey border and plain grey background. I added a nice Workbench background picture, changed the disk drive icons, created icons for some of my own scripts, and used default icons for just about everything else. I also run a program to change the "click-to-front" characteristics so I can click once in any window (or border of that window) to bring it to the front and make it active at the same time.
Of course, I also allow certain programs, such as AWeb and FinalWriter97, to open custom screens in their own colours.
Now back to the AmigaOS 4.0 GUI screenshots ...
At first I was a little worried. The first screenshots showed windows with a brushed metal background, that my wife and son thought was too dark and smudgy. I reminded them that we could change the colours and backgrounds.
Then the next set of screenshots came out showing some windows with the plain grey background we are used to. Thanks guys.
We can change colours, textures, borders, buttons, backgrounds. We can even make our borders and buttons into "innies" or "outies".
Regarding more eyecandy, choice of themes, etc. ...
On some threads, people have been clamering for more eye-candy, different themes and a more up to date look similar to what is available with the latest verions of Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS or the various GUI's used with Linux and Unix.
We have also seen some very beautiful renderings done by SimoAmi and others.
And, I agree that it would be "nice" to have these choices ... someday.
Maybe the next upgrade will allow us to do more.
Meanwhile, we can already change colours, textures, borders, buttons, backgrounds.
IMHO that is a pretty good start ...
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redfox
