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Offline foleyjoTopic starter

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Aminet
« on: April 01, 2006, 01:59:02 PM »
Has everyone seen Aminets new Workbench 1.3 style format!

They have done a nice job with that one. However they have also annoyed me by saying

"but all Amiga users use WinUAE anyway so it shouldn't be a problem. If you for some weird reason are still using a real Amiga "

Well my weird reason is I cant be bothered waiting for my PC to boot so I can then load in an emulator to use OS3.9 when I can simply press the on switch on my Amigas powersupply and be up in a much shorter space of time.

I once booted my Amiga and PC at the same time and managed a reboot on my Amiga before windows was loaded
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2006, 02:05:10 PM »
 :lol: That's great!  Someone's got a sick sense of humour :)
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2006, 02:05:41 PM »
Hmmm... It's all gone orange and blue!!!

And there's no substitute for using the REAL hardware!

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Re: Aminet
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2006, 02:06:50 PM »
My eyes!  :-P.

Shame it doesn't fit on a 1024*768 screen...
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2006, 02:09:09 PM »
The design is good, right? ... Yeah, it's really ok. Still - somehow you don't know what to feel about that ram icon up there. :-)) Somewhat dumb too, although now obviously in traffic.
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2006, 03:24:04 PM »
> My eyes! .

> Shame it doesn't fit on a 1024*768 screen...

Oops, the theme hasn't been tested oo well I guess. Could you post a screenshot together with what browser you usex
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2006, 03:37:09 PM »
1280x960 with Firefox doesn't fit too well in the screen either..

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Re: Aminet
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2006, 03:38:30 PM »
Clickety-click.

That's on: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1.
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2006, 03:45:45 PM »
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 :lol: That's great!  Someone's got a sick sense of humour :)


Maybe it's got something to do with today's date?  :-)
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2006, 03:46:35 PM »
Okay, so Aminet has gone retro style now... :-(

I think it was better before the change. Readability is suffering from the low contrast between orange and blue. By the way, the platform icons are missing.

:idea: I'd really appreciate to get the red/white/gray design back, perhaps with retro style as an option for "advanced" users (using browser cookies).
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2006, 03:51:11 PM »
If you have a modern browser like Opera the architectures are shown as text (using the img:after css selector and the content: attr(alt); value.

The width should now be smaller in FF too, unfortunately it doesn't seem the attr(alt) thingy works.

We will improve the looks bit by bit. The non-css version will come out in a fee days.
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2006, 04:11:50 PM »
So now it's better in Firefox... but it's hard to read that tiny text. Bad idea to use a non-proportional font.

Then trying InternetExplorer6... even worse. Huge font, the round black circles in the left menu are shown as rectangles, and the tables with text are aligned way too high (so the borders of the directory windows and the "Aminet" in the upper left corner are covered).

By the way, the graphical "@" symbol is also missing.

PS: Keeping lots of OS4 software during the last months (and only small amounts of 68k software recently uploaded) how can you say that most Aminet users do use WinUAE? Don't you think that OS4 software developers would like a modern place for publishing their software instead of an old-style looking Aminet?
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2006, 04:58:11 PM »
I prefer the old design. Sure, this new one is very "cool" and "retro" but it's not very practical and not so easy on the eyes. I don't think there are any fashionable and hip "retro nerds" in the Amiga community. We are not like those weird fashion freaks running around in Atari t-shirts and playing Pong just because it "cool-and-retro and totally awesome". So we don't really need workbench "themes"  if they are not ALSO practical.

With the old Aminet design there were lots of nice iconic visual cues, for example the "version" icons. I could tell immediately what was of interest for me and my m68k classic A1200. Now I'm having to work hard to SEE what I'm after.

I appretiate the effort of the Aminet team and least they are trying out new things but this new design is not useful for a serious file archieve. Please return the old design! :boohoo:

Also, there is no substitute for REAL hardware - come on! :-)
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Re: Aminet
« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2006, 05:12:17 PM »
I like the design, but it's a gimmick that will wear off. It's not as easy to read now.

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Re: Aminet
« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2006, 05:12:18 PM »
I assume this theme lasts for this day only, the 1st April, right?  :lol:  :lol: nice one  :lol:
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