OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19518/Click_Right_on_with_RISC_OS Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:14:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Isn't this article posted about eight days too early? http://osnews.com/thread?306526 http://osnews.com/thread?306526 Or will that be the one talking about the latest SkyOS beta? Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (snozzberry) Comments RE: Isn't this article posted about eight days too earl http://osnews.com/thread?306530 http://osnews.com/thread?306530 ? Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments RE: Isn't this article posted about eight days too earl http://osnews.com/thread?306561 http://osnews.com/thread?306561 What are you going on about? Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RISCOSMike) Comments RE: Isn't this article posted about eight days too earl http://osnews.com/thread?306563 http://osnews.com/thread?306563 What has SkyOS to do with this? Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Andre) Comments Not entirely true... http://osnews.com/thread?306565 http://osnews.com/thread?306565 Whilst it is generally true that RISC OS apps work in a similar manner, the same was true with it's peer, Apple's System 6.

Apple had a clear and well defined style guide for System 6 apps which virtually all applications followed. They defined things such as what menus you could expect to see, and indeed where things would be in those menus.

Acorn's RISC OS Style Guide was nowhere near as complete. For example, there are few rules concerning what should be in menus, and as a result menus are largely inconsistent from one application to the next. There was no style guide produced for Arthur (RISC OS 2's predecessor), and guide for RISC OS 2 was very late, thus it was not included with the initial batch of RISC OS Programmers Reference Manuals. (If memory serves it was about a year after RISC OS 2 came out that the Style Guide was published.) Acorn also took an incredibly long time to update it for RISC OS 3.

The generally consistent look and feel of RISC OS apps is there because application designers tried to copy the style of Acorn's inbuilt applications. Even some Acorn produced applications (such as Acorn DTP) did not follow the rules very well themselves. Indeed Computer Concepts (who were probably the most successful RISC OS application producer) ignored almost all of Acorn's style guidelines.

Personally I found it much easier moving from one application to another on the Mac than I did on RISC OS. This is in spite of the fact that I used RISC OS every day (and programmed for it) and only used Macs occasionally.

I'd say that even today RISC OS tends to be no more consistent than Mac OS X. Of course both are light-years ahead of Windows... Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (steve_s) Comments RE[2]: Isn't this article posted about eight days too earl http://osnews.com/thread?306569 http://osnews.com/thread?306569 1st April - April Fools' day Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments dfg http://osnews.com/thread?306941 http://osnews.com/thread?306941 [url=http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel/forum/showthread.php?p=6626#p...]buy xanax[/url]
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