Hi,

The OS4 default theme is keeping the style of WB2/WB3 but in a modern way, what is good because I think it's important to keep the heritage, at least for the default look, then everybody is free to change the theme.
Unfortunately, I was never really convinced by OS4 default theme, not bad at all but still too much old fashioned in my mind.
So, I tried to think how it could be improved and then discovered eveything was already existing but in different packages. So, after some tuning, here what I achieved:
Screengrab1
Screengrab2

The GUI (palette, gadgets, style, windows borders...) of the theme is the AmiBoing Light Blue theme that I tuned a little to reduce composites effect and I create a Workbench title bar of my own. I really like this GUI, the white background used for menu looks very polished and much more modern than this ugly grey that is still a big part of default OS4 look.

Backdrop in the windows are from Amitheme

Background picture is from DJNick
I really love its Amiga logo, that managed to mix and combine the style of the 3 historical logos (trapezoidal logo from early Amiga days, the iconic italic logos from the glory days and the post Commodore logo). It should become the official one in my mind.

Pointers that you can see in a window on first screengrab (that was the only way to show pointers as it's not possible to capture pointers with current screengrab tools) are from OS4depot

At the end, I really like the results, modern but very AmigaOS. I would prefer this to be default look. What do you think? If there is interest and if the various original authors agree, I could make an archive and installer for such a theme.

Last edited by Seblam on 12-Aug-2012 at 06:05 PM.
Last edited by Seblam on 12-Aug-2012 at 06:04 PM.
Last edited by Seblam on 12-Aug-2012 at 06:04 PM.

@Seblam

Not bad. However, my old-fashioned mind likes more classic blue-grey color theme.

@Seblam

very nice. i also installed the same theme from amiboing on my SAM, but after a few weeks, i came back to the default for some reason. i quite like the look-and-feel of the default icons, windows, and gadgets in OS4.1u4 -- the only thing i would change is the menu bar, making it lighter and with a background graphic in the left corner as you have done.

the default theme has changed from OS4.0 to OS4.1 to OS4.1u1 and later. i would imagine some tweaks coming in OS4.2 whenever it ships.

-- eliyahu

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