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Posted on 10-Aug-2004 05:10 GMT by Lou Vidal | 56 comments View flat View list |
Campaigning for the updating of the Workbench look, a new Queens Bits article traces the look of the Amiga interface from 1.3 to now. Profusely illustrated.
The official newsletter of the Queens Amiga Users Group ceased regular publication in the summer of '99 and there have been precious few articles published in the interim. Advocating a more up-to-date, professional-looking Workbench (along with accompanying OS4 applications), club president and former Queens Bits editor, Lou Vidal, has penned an appeal for a new look in the Amiga interface that can proudly hold its own against all the other OSs out there. Check it out on the QAUG website. Examples illustrating the development of Workbench from 1.3 to the future abound. Also make plans to see the ongoing demos of OS4, various machines, and sundry gadgets & goodies at our August meeting this Saturday, the 14th, starting at 11:30 am. Be there!
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Posted by Sammy Nordström on 10-Aug-2004 11:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 24 (Emeric SH): >The cavalry to the rescue?
Please, you're giving me far more credit than I deserve.
>You're distorting my opinion, not even slightly.
I began my post with "If you say that...". That's not distorting your views, it's simply stating an if statement. Exactly who is distorting who here?
>But in regards of the GUI
>system, yes I say so that outside pressure played a great part.
They made it perfectly clear right from the beginning that those initial screenshots where NOT to be considered the final look of AmigaOS4. We would have seen improvements to the looks regardless of the reactions on the ANN.lu forums.
I'm sorry but the point you're trying to make really is far fetched. The outside pressure might have caused them to regret that they made those screenshots public and that they should have waited until more improvemets had been made at the most.
>It seems for
>Hyperion and the OS4 developers the GUI is a minor issue - and granted that
>the core developers consist mostly of coders, there is no surprise.
The core developers are not GUI designers and do not decide wether looks of the GUI are important or not. That's for the GUI designers (ie Matthew Kille, Massimo Tantignone, etc.) to do.
>I'd like to see OS4 to evolve into such a system I'd gladly use in parallel
>with MorphOS.
Dream on. The efforts behind those operating systems are a perfect example of counter productive efforts and it's not very likely that you'll see those two operating systems run on the same hardware any time soon.
>What you say may apply to freeware stuffs, but not commercial
>projects. If you defy the target audience long enough, you lose customers.
As always, it's a matter of balancing the purchasing power you represent and the cost for satisfying your demands. I may be wrong, but you (and the likes of you) do not seem very willing to spend money on their products. If I'm wrong, you must be doing a poor job on showing them your support. |
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