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| Posted on 15-Jul-2002 06:57 GMT by SimplePPC | 116 comments
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Mike Bouma did an excellent write-up on OS 4 for OS news. Includes 5 unreleased screenshots. The article can be found here.
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| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 15-Jul-2002 07:37 GMT | Re: http://www.stormloader.com/amiga/osnews/amiga5.htm
...Indeed, nice icons. Of course, those single-option "dialogs" are examples of the most commonly made mistake in WIMP UI- providing a dialog with no choice. So... while I don't beg grand leaps in 4.0, I do feel it is "dangerous" to provide demo graphics making them; programmers have this bad habit of following a perceived "style" from such things.
Example fixes would be:
(i) No Match Found for Your Search: [Dismiss] [Search New Term]
(!) Warning: System is Overheating: [Shutdown] [Continue]
(x) Error: User is not paying attention: - Hm, too vague to make a guess at.
(->) Please insert volume Destroyed into any drive: [Ok] [Cancel Operation]
Of course, it's nitpicking. "Removable devices support" also elicits a chuckle, but mainly because of the SHEEP PR a while back. (Actually, that's a tough one, especially if you can select multiple devices for operations... and would [Refresh] be refreshing the state of the selected device(s), or every removable in the list?) |
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