The gui for R1 will look almost exactly the same as R5 - so you can get used to it already!
The “decors” that are available are not full blown skins, they just change the tab/border of the window and that’s about it (maybe scrollbars too as they are drawn by the app server in R5 - they’re just another Interface Kit object in R1, so they might not be “decor”-able either).
Simon
Timothy Martin’s mockup (first pic) repeated here for easier comparison with my adaptation (second pic) right below it.
But will the tabs slide?
BeJay
they are both ugly to me in fact 
The second one reminds me a hard time i had with Windows 98 years ago when this sucky system was stuck greyscale for handicap user and doesn’ want to switch back :s
I don’t like each of them…too far from the BeOS’s PE look
Mu
… subj
Some changes were needed on the upper edge to keep Deskbar/Tracker accessible.
The two small images represent top-left and top-right corner in a maximized situation.
BUT, will the tabs slide? Can someone please tell me! :?
BUT, will the tabs slide? Can someone please tell me! :s
No, this is quite something like the Origin theme (available in Dano and Zeta RC1) and is doesn’t slide, no.
Btw, i have never used this slide option …
So here is mainly what i was thinking about for R1:
A little miss in this muckup is the top of the menu, the button himself i have totally forgot to modify. I will in a next one.
So here is mainly what i was thinking about for R1:
- rounded tab with rounded buttons
- three colors in contextual menus (taken from the Gonx project)
- a small shadow behind windows and menus
A little miss in this muckup is the top of the menu, the button himself i have totally forgot to modify. I will in a next one.
I prefer that menuing system to any other mockups I’ve seen - and of course a BMenu is a BMenu, so it’d carry into the applications.
So here is mainly what i was thinking about for R1:
- rounded tab with rounded buttons
- three colors in contextual menus (taken from the Gonx project)
- a small shadow behind windows and menus
A little miss in this muckup is the top of the menu, the button himself i have totally forgot to modify. I will in a next one.
ooh, that is very nice, i like it.
ooooo. beautiful menus. and there’s something about a plain white OK button that makes me really happy.
excellent work!
i really like the trash icon.
I want haiku to look better than win xp, and look something like
I want haiku to look better than win xp, and look something like
eww man, thats just not right.
what i also like about beosfrance’s design is it shows a picture of the file system next to the partition icon.
I want haiku to look better than win xp, and look something like
Make it look like MacOS, bye bye half of the old guard of BeOS users
Make it look anything thats not like BeOS, bye bye users
Remi (beosfrance)'s mockups are by far the best because it LOOKS like BeOS, just modernised. All the others look, well, not like BeOS. BeOS is yellow, grey and blue, with tabs; and relatively simplistic widgets. Its as simple as that - that is BeOS’s GUI. Some of the ones here look more suited to KDE than BeOS.
make two skins - A nice skin and the ungly beos skin.
make two skins - A nice skin and the ungly beos skin.
OSX is a piece of crap graphically.
if you want BeOS to look like Mac OS X then make the skin yourself and keep it to yourself. Aqua is ugly, and brushed metal is more than ugly.