HKvalhe's AmigaOne 500 Blog: MUItify the GUI!

AmigaOS 4.1.6 EasyColorBlue Theme!

Greetings, fellow Amigans! Now it has been a long time since the blog was last updated. In this article, i will focus mostly on how i managed to get the best possible look from both GUI and MUI, but first what i have done since the last blog.

My AmigaOne 500 system running AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6, has undergone a lot of improvements in term of many system component upgrades and improving on the configuration.

A brand new router was bought in the Easter vacation - the all new AirLink Jensen 5000 AC wireless router. It uses the new 802.11ac standard, and allows both wireless and cables at very fast speed! Because my Amiga has Gigabit Ethernet and my home a broadband over 5MBit, using wires only, the speed of the net is very impressive! I'm very happy with the new router! Download and upload of middle big files happen extremely fast! Take a look here at the shot!

AirLink Jensen 5000 AC wireless router!

This is going to be a quick blog, so lets look at how i have configured MUI, shall we? Now watch carefully the pictures!

If you have registered a key for using ALL of MUI's features, then you have the possibility to adjust the color setting and a lot of other features.

In term of colors, you get access to a Color Wheel. It's here you can get the fantastic realistic look and a realistic look of the buttons seen below! For the cool background images, i have decided to use Symmetric Horizontal and Symmetric Vertical. Should be easy! Why don't you try yourself, too?

MUI undergoing extreme makeover!

The other picture here will show you how the MUI Color Wheel for different settings were adjusted. I have adjusted everything, but one that is TextEditor. This one should be left untouched. Why, you might wonder.

The answer is quite simple. If you mess with the colors in TextEditor part of the external MUI settings, you mess up the texts when they are tried to be viewed, like in YAM when reading an email. The solution is therefore to adjust everything else in MUI you can, but NOT the TextEditor!

As you can see for yourself, the heavily configured MUI looks perfectly stylished with the EasyColorBlue AmiTheme! I love the way it looks professional!

The magic wonders of MUI Color Wheel!

But MUI is not the only GUI that has undergone an extreme makeover. The Reaction GUI of AmigaOS4 has also undergone quite a facelift.

Instead of having the buttons appear in 3D style, i found it to be better with Flat style for the buttons.

GUI preference should have an option to use the same look of MUI as i have managed. It impressed me that even a higly modified MUI was able to look BETTER than a highly configured GUI! No kidding, really! The pictures tell the truth!

Highly modified Reaction GUI!

Well, i guess this blog covers everything related to both GUI and MUI. So if you are into beautifying your AmigaOS4, then these are the things you can try to do!

Remember to do a backup before you do such changes or better still, use the cool AmiSystemRestore to set up a restore point so that if something goes wrong, you can easily restore back to the previous point BEFORE the change happened! Cool, eh?!

This will be everything for now. Another new blog will appear shortly. That one will cover the power of Gimp and some gaming, so keep your eye open on this site! Enjoy this blog for now on.