Preliminary OS4 GUI Screenshots

[redfox]

Very nice.  Good to see those GUI preferences.

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redfox

[SlimJim]

Looking good.
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SlimJim

[L8-X]

Ohhh yummmy! :-D

Gimme gimme gimme!!!!!! :-)

[ne_one]

Just a quick plug for the members of this site: the tone is always encouraging and even when there is disagreement it's almost always conciliatory. Compare this to the same discussion on amiga.org right now.



Trolls.

[Alkemyst]

"Just a quick plug for the members of this site: the tone is always encouraging and even when there is disagreement it's almost always conciliatory. Compare this to the same discussion on amiga.org right now.



Trolls."
 
 
I think it was ment to go like
 
Just a quick plug for the members of this site: the tone is always encouraging and even when there is disagreement it's almost always conciliatory. Compare this to the same discussion on ANN right now.



Trolls.

[wonea]

Very impressive!

[xeron]

I think it was ment to go like

Just a quick plug for the members of this site: the tone is always encouraging and even when there is disagreement it's almost always conciliatory. Compare this to the same discussion on ANN right now.

This is true. In fact, I feel my post to skyraker was a little bit too strong (although I still stand by the sentiment), and I think I only did that because I had just come here from reading the childish fights on ANN  :-D

[AmigaMac]

All I got to say is AWESOME!!!

 :-D

[Johan Samuelsson]

They REALLY do need an Art Director. And a GOOD one.
The first ipression is REALLY REALLY REALLY important!
We gotta let them know that. And this AD should NOT be
an average amiga scene graphician working for free.
This matter needs a guy with great skills and knowledge. A Pro.
There is no reason AmigaOS should look
cheaper than any other modern OSes. They said something like
"now you have the enginge, make it look good" That is not the
way to go. It has to look SWEET from the beginning, and when
we are tired of that, then, we customise our WB's.
DO NOT HIRE A HOBBYIST AD - HIRE A PRO! IT WILL BE WORTH IT!

[Valan]

I think they are trying to reasure the comunity that things can look as promised. These shots are to make it obvious what goes where. I think these are from the programming team rather than the designer.

A professional will use contrasting colours to 'map out' areas. So this look is par for the course as far as development goes. I guess the real look is hidden away and a professional would be hard at work generating new themes.

Don't expect the final look of OS4 to be unwrapped until just before it is released. Remember there were skins of Mac OSX out for Windows months before it was released for the Mac.

Hold tight nearly there.

[jumpship]

@SpotUP

I toke a copy of the screen shots into the guys at work, and they were impressed.

I showed them the first shot (as it is the one i liked best) and aside frrom one of them thinking it was a linux shot (!) all thought it looked OK.

BTW I don't think that this is an advert for the masses seeing as Amiga don't intend to publicly launch OS4 until Cebit. This is just to keep US hardcore Amiga users happy

[Tomas]

What the heck is wrong with the damn people over at ann.lu?? No matter what AmigaINC does, they bash bash bash bash....

Why cant they just sit there with their stupid wintel boxes instead of bashing...  WE are not FORCED to buy it unless we want to...

Blah blah blah the fonts are.... the colors are.... Why cant they get into their tiny skulls that AOS4.0 is totally customizeable?? If you dont like the fonts, colors or whatever just fuc*ing change it. And if those people can read, they see that AmigaINC stated, this is NOT the final looks. Its just dam* examples...

Sorry for the cursing.. im just sick tired of those people.  :-x

[z5]

@Valan and SpotUP

I agree... but i too don't think this is anything from the final look...it was just a bunch of screens to show what is possible with the gui configuration wise.

Somehow, i've got the feeling that SimoAmi is involved in bringing a look to OS4. But i could be wrong ofcourse, though i hope he is involved.

[Kent]

z5 wrote:
Somehow, i've got the feeling that SimoAmi is involved in bringing a look to OS4. But i could be wrong ofcourse, though i hope he is involved.

Yup, SimoAmi is involved with designing some of the graphics to be used with OS4.  If I remember correctly, we've already seen an example of some gadgets (I won't comment on which though).  SimoAmi does excellent work, both in graphics and programming.  It will be very nice to see all of his work involved with OS4.  Keep in mind, SimoAmi and Matt Chaput are not the only ones involved with the graphics design, iirc there are two more people working in that particular section.

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[z5]

Yup, SimoAmi is involved with designing some of the graphics to be used with OS4. If I remember correctly, we've already seen an example of some gadgets (I won't comment on which though). SimoAmi does excellent work, both in graphics and programming. It will be very nice to see all of his work involved with OS4. Keep in mind, SimoAmi and Matt Chaput are not the only ones involved with the graphics design, iirc there are two more people working in that particular section.

This is good news. Somehow, i feel positive about OS4. I think they know what they are doing. Keeping fingers crossed. By the way, Kent, how do you know this info? I think simoami is talented, as is Matt Chaput. Maybe Mason is working on stuff also?

[Kent]

z5 wrote:
By the way, Kent, how do you know this info?

Personal connection with SimoAmi and Matt Chaput as well as a fairly direct line with members of the Hyperion staff.  I haven't stated anything that isn't already public knowledge anyway.  SimoAmi posted on AO a few months back that he was offered to do some graphics for OS4 later saying that he would be working directly with Matt Chaput.  It's this damn photogenic memory I have I guess.

Not to mention, I got a 51% weirdness factor on the Amiga Purity test  :-P .

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