The HaikuPodcast.com team has made a video entitled "The Introduction to Haiku", in high quality divx or low-quality m4v, to honour Haiku's 5th birthday. Of course you could always install and experience it first hand, but if that's not an option, this video may come in handy.
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This is probably *why* I like BeOS, but who knows what the future brings!
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Wait, are you saying that you don't like new icons, even if they make your computer experience more intuitive, or mouse icons that gives the user a better knowledge of what is going on in the computer?
What about video thumbnailing? Let's say I have a directory full of videos, and I want to find Taxi Driver, now I remember that when I last opened the movie it had a thumbnail of a yellow taxi at night, now I'll just look for a thumbnail with a yellow taxi, in my experience this is faster then having to look for a file called Taxi Driver.avi.
If this is what you call "eye candy" then I have to disagree, but if you are talking about big round window borders or big shiny icons that make your eyes hurt, I'll have to agree.
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Wait, are you saying that you don't like new icons, even if they make your computer experience more intuitive...
Nope, I didn't say that at all.
I'm saying I have better uses for my computer than downloading dozens of icon packs, screensavers, desktop wallpapers, splash login screens, sound packs, media player "skins", and so on.
As far as "desktop" wallpaper goes, I don't spend a heck of a lot of time looking at my root window. It's always covered by program windows because I *use* programs. I don't *use* the root window.
The only time I see the root window is when my system first boots into the graphical environment ... which looks like this: http://www.blixel.com/Desktop.jpg
As far as "desktop" icons go, same thing. My root window is always covered by program windows. So I wouldn't see the icons anyway. And it would bug me knowing that there was some program running in the background that was wasting CPU cycles and RAM just to draw icons I'll never see or use.
I think screensavers are a waste of CPU cycles, and in turn, a waste of electricity. When I walk away from my computer, I press a key combination to put my LCD panels into power saving mode. I have no desire to sit at my computer and stare at pipes drawing on the screen. And when I'm not sitting in front of my computer, I'm not there to "enjoy" the pipes drawing on the screen anyway. So why bother with them?
(Some of those really "fancy" screensavers can really suck the juice. Monitor your CPU temperature some time when running a CPU intensive screensaver for about 5 or 10 minutes. Those screensavers should instead be called CPU-heaters.)
Splash logins ... is it really worth the effort to customize a splash login screen? I mean, you have to log out and log back in just to see it. And it only lasts for 1 or 2 seconds. What's the point? Plus, it requires that you use a display manager. I'd rather just boot to a command prompt when my system first comes on. I'll login and type "startx" myself. So I'd have to install a display manager just to get splash logins. Not worth it.
Sound packs. Personally, I can't stand system sounds. My speakers are reserved for my audio file collection.
Media player skins. Computer programs aren't car stereos. So, in my opinion, they shouldn't look like a car stereo... or an alien head, or a jukebox, or any other dumb thing like that.
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Agreed, before BeOS I was 1st a MacOS junky, spent zillions on prettying up MacOS with all sorts of things that should have been built in or should never have been added yet had only marginal improvement on productivity as well as increased crashes.
The switch to W2k was a big increase in blandness and stability too, but too far back to ugly side.
The switch to BeOS pretty much gets it almost right in the middle for pretty enough with lots of Tracker power most OSes don't have. I still miss the MacOS prettyness and some of the BeOS changes from Mac were backwards but those can be fixed eventually.
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I'm probably in the minority, but I actually like the "old" look. When I see "eye candy", I always think "what a waste of CPU & RAM." Seriously. What's the point of having a computer if you're only desire is to have gee-whiz screensavers, lickable icons, and look-at-me-ain't-I-cool mouse cursors and all of that other resource wasting cruft?
Seems like a pointless use of a computer to me. Buy a computer for the sake of "pimping" it out ... so you can ... stare at your Desktop background ... and ... so you can ... uhh... look at your icons ... so you ... can ... ?? ... uhh ... install another set of bouncy mouse cursors ...