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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #29 from previous page: June 26, 2003, 08:25:55 AM »
> if the amigaos or morphos(whichever you prefer) had
> a plain dull unconfigurable GUI, would you still use,
> buy, and like the os?

Absolutely. That's my preferred OS look - very very simple, and completely out of the way window controls. It's always been my fave, since I worked with Sun systems at Uni, Microstation digital mapping in the mid 90s, and now the CDE theme in KDE in debian :).

http://www.danamania.com/temp/screen2.jpg is a screenshot of my playabout linux desktop. It's all deleted now cos there was quite a bit else to using a linux desktop that just plain annoyed me :).

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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #30 on: June 26, 2003, 08:30:39 AM »
@Dana

KDE rocks!  :-D
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #31 on: June 26, 2003, 08:59:51 AM »
The fact that KDE is among the top 2 best Linux desk tops does not say much for Linux at all! Hell you can take Classic Amiga OS, cramm it full of Visual Prefs, MUI, Class Act, blah blah blah, And it will look a thousand times better, be a thousand times faster, a thousand times more responcive, and a hell of a lot less confusing to configure. I wonder where some of you Amiga users really came from, and if it was REALLY from an Amiga back ground. It's just crazy talk man, crazy talk. :)

 Dana you are very purdy.
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #32 on: June 26, 2003, 10:19:23 AM »
buh, what is exactly the point of this post?
showing some FVWM desktop and asking if we would use something  like that or hack around it?

in case he wants to make a point by saying - linux looks like this and people use it! yeah, but they also hacked around it and made other things like E, Gnome, KDE, XFCE,... which are complete desktop environments (while FVWM is only a window manager).

anyway, this question has no point, because AOS4 will _not_ come with such an interface, it will include some enhanced 3.9 like GUI. and yeah, some parts will not be liked by certain people and then hacks will appear. WorkBench would look like it looks today without all those hacks...
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #33 on: June 26, 2003, 10:29:04 AM »
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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 :-)
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #34 on: June 26, 2003, 10:49:12 AM »
Pfft, KDE is eV1|_ ;-)

Gnome or bare fvwm, dammit :-D

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http://www.danamania.com/temp/screen2.jpg is a screenshot of my playabout linux desktop. It's all deleted now cos there was quite a bit else to using a linux desktop that just plain annoyed me :).

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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #35 on: June 26, 2003, 10:54:00 AM »
you are a typical MS-pirate.
shame on you.
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #36 on: June 26, 2003, 06:19:06 PM »
Adam: what you mean you pay M$ for tehre products!?!? Shame on you!
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #37 on: June 26, 2003, 06:23:57 PM »
in a word? no... but I can explain why... I use AmigaOS/MorphOS for the fun of useing them...not for functionality... I use BlackBox/Xfce/4DWM(lately) on Linux/FreeBSD... in those enviornments that UI would be fine since most of my time is spent bash scripting and screwing around anyway... it all depends what you want!... I think OSX is the ultimate balance... but ohh well :)
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #38 on: June 26, 2003, 07:37:26 PM »
OSX is kool, but doesn't that still chew up major resources?
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #39 on: June 27, 2003, 03:21:50 AM »
No wait, would you use it if it looked like this?

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


Hey it multi-tasks! :)
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #40 on: June 27, 2003, 09:14:41 AM »
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, And it will look a thousand times better, be a thousand times faster, a thousand times more responcive,

This has to be a spoof.
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #41 on: June 28, 2003, 02:27:07 AM »
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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!!!! :D
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #42 on: June 28, 2003, 02:34:09 AM »
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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
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Re: If the AmigaOS/MorphOS GUI looked like this would you still want it?
« Reply #43 on: June 28, 2003, 04:01:43 AM »
iamaboringperson: You still play that too!?!? :)
 Astrosmash was great, I always liked the D&D games on there as well. Some of the newest games that came out ain't to shabby either, there adult porn RPG's but there still kool, and push the system very far.

 Interesting history behind that unit...
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