[openbeos] Re: (G)UI design, round 2 (split from: Patch: Prettifying the default decorator)

  • From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:09:44 +0100 CET

Thomas Winwood <ketsuban@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...
> So I'll open this question to everyone - what IS our audience?
> If, as I surmise, it's those people who liked BeOS already, 
> then we're back to square one and we ought to make the 
> default decorator look as much like R5 as it is within our power
> to do so. Only if someone can provide a compelling alternative
> audience do we have any justified reason to make changes to 
> the UI.

Being one of those long-time BeOS users, and Haiku's initial 
target audience, I've been through lots of bigger changes than
Haiku's tabs. I don't think this community would collapse and die
due to minor deviations from the last release of BeOS, but I'd 
be somewhat peeved if I couldn't at least opt to use -some- 
variant of yellow tabs. At the very least I'd hate not being able
to push back windows by right-clicking their tabs.

But who knows, perhaps in R2 or R3 we'll manage windows
in some whole new manner.

/Jonas Sundström.

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