[haiku-development] Re: Mounted Volumes
- From: "Remi Grumeau" <remi.grumeau@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:08:31 +0200
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Duane Ryan <bailey.d.r@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Haiku is trying to do two things at once: Build an operating system
> from ten years ago and build an operating system from today. The way I
> see it, there's no real reason to make it <i>look</i> as if it's ten
> years old, just make it <i>compatible</i> with ten year old binaries
> (a long with the same interface, APIs, etc). So the argument that
> Haiku should name its Menu because a ten year old operating system
> does for the sake of similarity is not really making complete sense to
> me. And not naming a menu because vista does means that Vista has
> already done; of all the things that I would have chosen to compare
> Vista and Haiku, the menu would be one of the last items I would
> choose. And if by making the interface cleaner Haiku reminds you of
> vista, then vista must look pretty damn good; Haiku has managed to
> take the original UI and make it look Kick Ass.
>
> So... I guess I just like the interface looking clean. This means less
> text overall; I think that a menu labeled 'Menu' is rather redundant
> and unnecessary after the first run or so. Anyway, I rather associate
> the leaf with Haiku now, though if you really want to associate it,
> you're going to have to make some changes to the default logo. Instead
> of three feathers, you need one feather, prominently figured. This
> will move the feather's status from being an attribute off the logo to
> being the center of the logo; the name "Haiku" will name the feather
> and the operating system, thereby linking the two.
>
> Oh dear, I did it again.
>
>
> --
> Duane
Why such a big deal about this leaf ?
In Vista, it's only the Windows logo, in MacOS only the small Apple, in BeOS
the logo of BeOS (which the word BeOS was included in but it's the logo).
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