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Exactly what about the window style? No glass? No buttons? Transparency style? Simple white Program Name and X [] _ ?
Another thought: On Mac OS X, there is a button which toggles between a view with toolbars and side buttons and between simple folder contents with the menu bar. Should this be incorporated?
Another thought: On Mac OS X, there is a button which toggles between a view with toolbars and side buttons and between simple folder contents with the menu bar. Should this be incorporated?
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I think you should go with black as base color. Thiner titlebar on the windows. It's nice now but it looks to mutch Vista for my taste. Skip the blue and red _ [] X, and make them the same color as the titlebar as you have done on the taskbar with the spaces-buttons. And try it with transparecy instead of glass on the taskbar. And maby a cleaner circle as the startbutton with the React-logo in it...artguy10 wrote:Exactly what about the window style? No glass? No buttons? Transparency style? Simple white Program Name and X [] _ ?
Another thought: On Mac OS X, there is a button which toggles between a view with toolbars and side buttons and between simple folder contents with the menu bar. Should this be incorporated?
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I like parts of this design, but I don't feel completely comfortable with it. Taskbar seems too dark... What do you think? Also a redesigned start menu? I assume ROS developers don't intend on keeping the win 95 style.
I like parts of this design, but I don't feel completely comfortable with it. Taskbar seems too dark... What do you think? Also a redesigned start menu? I assume ROS developers don't intend on keeping the win 95 style.
Thomas, the dev working on the shell rewrite, has stated that he doesn't intend to bother adding in a XP-like start menu. Someone else will probably need to code it in.
Most of the developers are Windows 2000 loyalists, so don't presume they intend to take ROS down the same direction as Windows has gone when it comes to things like interface design.
Most of the developers are Windows 2000 loyalists, so don't presume they intend to take ROS down the same direction as Windows has gone when it comes to things like interface design.
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Better! The glass on the, iPhoney, buttons in my computer works. But the glass on -[]X and spaces dosen't look good with the clean, flat, transparacy. They stand out to mutch. Same goes for the start button. How about a circle just a bit darker than the taskbar and then the ROS-logo on top of that?artguy10 wrote: I like parts of this design, but I don't feel completely comfortable with it. Taskbar seems too dark... What do you think? Also a redesigned start menu? I assume ROS developers don't intend on keeping the win 95 style.
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Z98 wrote:Thomas, the dev working on the shell rewrite, has stated that he doesn't intend to bother adding in a XP-like start menu. Someone else will probably need to code it in.
Most of the developers are Windows 2000 loyalists, so don't presume they intend to take ROS down the same direction as Windows has gone when it comes to things like interface design.
can there be a poll?
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I like parts of this design, but I don't feel completely comfortable with it. Taskbar seems too dark... What do you think? Also a redesigned start menu? I assume ROS developers don't intend on keeping the win 95 style.
its way to dark!
edit: i like the taskbar idea! instead of that button can it be the logo?
I think the grey colour of the window menu and the buttons below is not 100% perfect, it could be a bit more red (a bit like the start menu).
I think it looks great and is really not too dark, though I think you should create a mockup for an inactive window as well, as it has to differ enough from the active window...
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If this could become a future theme of reactos, one should make a non-transparent version now, as a 3D window manager will need much longer than the normal skinning system.
I think it looks great and is really not too dark, though I think you should create a mockup for an inactive window as well, as it has to differ enough from the active window...
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If this could become a future theme of reactos, one should make a non-transparent version now, as a 3D window manager will need much longer than the normal skinning system.
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Is this better?
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This was a little more mac-inspired instead of just windows.
I'm still not happy with the start menu design. If people put out ideas for me to make mock-ups and people vote, that would be fine.
And I'm still not happy with the taskbar. I think a white-glass one would be nice maybe, instead of transparency. And I can't figure how a simple logo would be thought of as a button more than a circle, but here goes...
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So I think this is pretty much the evolution so far:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9210 ... newfp4.png
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/6571 ... newlp0.png
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/7113 ... newkx9.png
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/6768 ... latut0.png
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This was a little more mac-inspired instead of just windows.
I'm still not happy with the start menu design. If people put out ideas for me to make mock-ups and people vote, that would be fine.
And I'm still not happy with the taskbar. I think a white-glass one would be nice maybe, instead of transparency. And I can't figure how a simple logo would be thought of as a button more than a circle, but here goes...
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So I think this is pretty much the evolution so far:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9210 ... newfp4.png
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/6571 ... newlp0.png
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/7113 ... newkx9.png
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/6768 ... latut0.png
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