March 16, 2003
Isaac Leung got a degree in Engineering Physics and then Electrical Engineering after which he promptly got a job as a product engineer at a company which makes high speed datacom chips. He is old enough to have cut his computer teeth on Commodore 64's and first played with OS/2 1.3 EE while at a summer job with IBM. The first PC he ever owned came with Windows 95, but he soon slapped on OS/2 Warp 3 and has been Warping ever since. In his spare time, he plots to take over the world.
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Does OS/2 have to be Ugly?
Does OS/2 have to be ugly? Of course not! A little bit of nice colour, some fresh new icons and a clean font go a long way.
[Ed. Do you have a cool desktop? Send us a screenshot and tell us how you did it.]
Font: Warpsans Bold. One of the best looking fonts still. I wish someone would make a PS font version of it so it's resizeable!
Icons: Some from PlusPak Themes. Some are "hand made" based on various screen captures. Like something you see? Let me know, I'll send them to you.
Background: If you're wondering about that nice line and shadow under the Warpcenter? A happy little accident. I was merely looking for a simple blue background and I found one from a Linux distro. Unfortunately, it had this "junk" white space on top. I broke out PMView to crop it out. No planning whatsoever, but as I loaded up the new background, I saw that it fit perfectly and it made a nice little shadow. Like it? Just ask me I will e-mail you the picture.
Browser: What else? Mozilla 1.3b with the aquaMOZ Theme theme. I have to admit it isn't as compact and speedy as the Pinball theme, but it looks great.
Media players: are PM123 and WarpVision, of course with consistently themed skins!
And what's that pretty little calendar program? Why it's ExCal, an oldy but complete goody. The absolute model of OS/2 WPS integration. What a difference a few new icons make. It's light, fast stable and does exactly what I need it to do. Besides, what other calendar/information manager program do you have (on any platform) that allows you to keep an address book with a thumbnail icon picture of the actual person?
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