Re: [ros-general] ReactOS UI Team - Concept, Plan, and: help wanted

[Max Well]

Hi, my name is David Hinz,

I'm not completely new to ReactOS, but I subscribed the mailinglists
only 2 weeks ago.
I'm interested in getting a UI designer.
The thing is, I know a lot of operatingsystems and their UIs and I've
got a lot of own ideas, but I can't programm.
Currently, I'm learning C and C++ in school, so I thing It would be a
good practise for me to use my new knowledge for ReactOS.
As you said, there are already two UI designer, so I would like to
redesign the setup.
It seems to be already complete, but it's 'only' textmode.
So, what I'd like to do, is create a graphic setup, maybe using the
livecd, the old textmode setup and some other things of reactos and
create a new graphic setup that installs ReactOS without rebooting.
I think this might be an interesting project, but if you would like me
to do something different, I would be ok with that.

Greets,

David Hinz aka fRy2oo5


2005/10/6, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)studiocerebral.com>om>:
>   Hi, our UI Team Coordinator - mf - asked me to sent
> this email on his
>  behalf, because unfortunately mails from his address doesn't reach any
>  mailing-list.
>
>  Here is the original message:
>  From: mf <mf(a)mufunyo.net>
>  Date: October 6, 2005 1:20:56 AM GMT+04:00
>  Subject: ReactOS UI Team - Concept, Plan, and: help wanted
>
>
>  Greetings ReactOS developers and interested parties!
>
>  For the unintroduced, I am your humble UI coordinator. In addition, I also
>  made some graphics for the project.
>
>  -Concept-
>  I am here to remind you of a post that was made in the ReactOS user forum,
>  written by crappish (Mikko Tikkanen). In it the author wrote of the need of
>  a consistent user interface, the need of people that actually have knowledge
>  of such things, and how these people would have to be in charge of enforcing
>  such an interface. They should be familiar with Windows, know how to make
>  things accessible and newbie-friendly, and have enough creativity to improve
>  on existing concepts. In addition to that, there should be someone who
>  represents this team and can interface it with the rest of the project, and
>  make sure everything is the way everyone wants it to be. Now, this
>  representative has been chosen. But there is no team to back him up!
>
>  -Recruiting-
>  So getting down to business. The UI team is recruiting two kinds of people.
>  Primarily: Programmers who have sufficient knowledge to hack other people's
>  code, even if said code is rooted deeply in system libraries. Skill in
>  writing user interfaces and piecing together dialog resources. No advanced
>  skills beyond that required. This is most important, since developers in
>  this category can get straight to business and get started on improving
>  ReactOS.
>  Secondarily: Interface concept designers who have advanced knowledge of
>  human interfacing, easy access, logical positioning, and the creativity to
>  improve and expand on existing ideas. This is a secondary category because
>  a) right now there is little to do in this respect, b) there are already two
>  (counting Mikko?) of these people in ReactOS, and c) for every 1 concept
>  designer, there can be up to 10 implementing developers.
>  Even more appreciated, would be someone who fits both gloves and can write
>  code AND design interfaces. Sadly, experience proves that these two traits
>  don't usually come together in one person.
>
>  And! Just as important, though not actively recruited, I welcome icon
>  designers, graphic designers, font designers (that includes you, wierd_w!),
>  sound effect samplers, and programmers willing to implement missing UI
>  features (think of things such as extended cursor/icon support, alpha
>  blitting, runtime freetype configuration, recycle bin functionality, control
>  panel, autorun support, etc), on individual application (mail me at
>  mf(a)mufunyo.net).
>
>  -Plan-
>  The plan(tm) to kickstart the UI team is as follows:
>  Our first goal will be to make the surface experience of ReactOS familiar.
>  Surface in this context means the things a user will see during and after
>  bootup. This mainly involves modifying explorer; to display a consistent and
>  familiar start menu, and to show a friendly explorer when My Computer or the
>  Explore link is opened. This means making all the surface icons consistent
>  (my task), modifying explorer's interface (the 'programmer' category), and
>  figuring out the best layout for the start menu (the 'designer' category).
>  There is no plan past this first task, because I cannot predict how small or
>  big the team is going to be, what feedback we are going to get, and how fast
>  things will move.
>
>
>
>  And that's it for my first big announcement. I hope this will get some
>  discussion going, and some balls rolling. I would also like to take this
>  opportunity to request a mailing list for the UI team, this should have been
>  set up right after the coordinator vote was over, but it wasn't-- so to
>  whoever's in charge of that, I count on you. Thanks.
>  Please reply to this mail only on the general list or to me in person (if
>  you're not on the list and only get digests), it is only crossposted in
>  ros-dev to get a wider range of attention.
>
>
>  Thanks for reading,
>  mf.
>
>
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