Scalos beta version 40.22 released

[bhoggett]

Scalos beta version 40.22 has just been uploaded to the downloads page of the Scalos home site. A full list of changes can be found in the "Version history" section of the News page.

Scalos is a Workbench replacement project for AmigaOS.

Source: Scalos home site

[Bobsonsirjonny]

hmmm - As far as I know AROS is all but there with the exception of a complete desktop environment.

AmigaOS 4... well I showed the latest screenshots  to a few graphic design friends of mine. They thought it minged.. really hummed.

But Scalos doesnt look to bad. Why dont they talk to these people. I mean interface design is gonna be king. You couldn't sell a car with the gear stick under the seat.......

[theTAO]

What annoys me about Scalos is that, in the wake of OS3.5 and 3.9, it still (AFAIK) insists on being a total replacement...and on using MUI.  I played with it a year or two prior to OS3.5 when it was a little unstable, and it did some nice things, but today I don't WANT to replace things like window scrolling and icon dragging, which work reasonably well right now.  I'd be pleased if they could find a way to transparently patch only the things the OS updates missed, like the window text modes (ie. View By -> Name, Date, Size, Type).  On the other hand, I haven't tried it in a while...

Todd

[System]

Wow, didn't know that Scalos were still around!!

Last I heard of them was on a CU Amiga cover CD a few years ago, so I automatically thought that they were about to sink without trace ;-)

I suppose that this is the nearest that the Amiga Community have to and alternative window manager/gadget set like in th Linux community.

I wonder if the AROS guys ever talked with them?  Would save a lot of GUI design time if Scalos sould be ported! :-D

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David A Cox

[ikir]

what can offer scalor nowdays?

[System]

We don't *want* to patch existing things - that just turns Scalos into a big old stinky hack...

Currently Scalos can do everything itself - and in many cases much faster.  Keeping it totally independant from any OS3.5/3.9 updates allows Scalos to

a) run on OS3.0/3.1
b) run on MorphOS without any legal mess
c) be totally self contained

We do support the newer features of OS3.5+ by offering plugins and compatible APIs.

[System]

The Scalos feature list is a little out of date, but reading the recent history page can provide some incite into what we're working on.

More to the point - what do *you* guys want out of Scalos?