[ros-dev] FreeWin95

crashfourit crashfourit at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 21:39:12 CEST 2005


Yes, Making it completely skinnable would be difficult and require a lot 
of programing, but it will quite possibly widen the market up for ReactOS.

Max Well wrote:

> Well, I already thought of a new UI design and I will try to create a 
> preview, but I think the project is in a too early state for crating a 
> second UI.
>
> Making it skinnable seems to be a good idea, but it will make the 
> whole thing much more difficult.
>
> The most important thing for me is to get away from the classical 
> windows look and feel with windows, taskbar and so on.
>
> Greets,
>
> David Hinz
>
> crashfourit schrieb:
>
>> I think it would be best to have the UI completely skinnable, or very 
>> near thereof.  Personally, I'm partial to the LCARS look (Star 
>> Trek).  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=lcars&btnG=Google+Search
>>
>>
>> Jason Filby wrote:
>>
>>> To me it sounds like disagreement with some design choices. We could 
>>> have a development team vote, although I always hate when we go on a 
>>> vote with some people unhappy about the direction -- debate and a 
>>> middle way would be better.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On 10/9/05, *Max Well* <post.center at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:post.center at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I think he wants to say, that we stick to close with Windows.
>>>     ReactOS really looks like a clone of Windows NT and doesn't have 
>>> many
>>>     new features.
>>>     In my oppinion he is right, maybe we should create something
>>>     innovative,
>>>     that is intuitive and compatible to Windows NT, but doesn't 
>>> clone the
>>>     whole UI.
>>>     Maybe we should think of a redesign of the UI, but at the moment I
>>>     think
>>>     the kernel should have a higher priority.
>>>
>>>     Greets,
>>>
>>>     David Hinz
>>>
>>>
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