Cairo, a new shell for Windows

[Borimol]

Throughout the development process we will be releasing milestones, alphas, betas, and release candidates—milestones marking the furthest from completion and release candidate the closest.

The UI in this image represents a Milestone 1 UI, meaning that we have begun taking all of our UI work and consolidating it towards a final interface. Like Microsoft or Apple, this UI may evolve substantially over the course of its development.

The alpha available soon will be a Milestone 1 release, meaning it will mark the first leap towards getting Cairo out into the world. The UI milestones are not necessarily going to coincide with the release milestones.

Questions, comments, criticisms welcome.

-Cairo Team

http://cairoshell.com/2008/02/04/milestone-1-ui-concept/

Edited February 4, 2008 by Slimy

[goji]

To heck with window blinds, this is a reason to upgrade :p

Keep up the great work guys, you have always impressed me!

[Ayepecks]

Looks nice.

[Knife Party]

yes...yes...yes! this is so cool and what i really wanted from the beginning !

[sjc22us]

WOW! :punk: thats nice

[Argi]

Looks really good, but it's only a concept pic I gather?

[night_stalker_z]

Looks quite nice. A mixture of GNOME and OSX.

I though Cairo was a graphics library.

[Berto]

Looks like a combination of items and style queues from Ubuntu and OS X. It's nice and smooth but I can clearly see the navigational elements and icon coming from other operating systems. For daily use I can see this being much better but as a user of Mac and Ubuntu let me be the first to say that design elements have finally fused into one mainstream visual representation.

[BabyDoc]

Looking very nice, might use it when it's done.

[Scirwode]

Very nicely done.

Scirwode

[CPressland]

Uninstalls uBuntu, Reinstalls XP in anticipation. About time we had something like this for Windows

[Popcorned1]

That looks amazing. Will defo try this when it's available.

[gazebee_]

amazing! I'll be waiting :)

[goji]

Uninstalls uBuntu, Reinstalls XP in anticipation. About time we had something like this for Windows

This is a shell replacement for Vista, not XP.

[ring0]

i've been patiently waiting for this since the first mockup screenies. mmmmm cairo.

[NienorGT]

Interesting... Very Interesting.

[Unto Darkness]

:omg:

Me Wanteee!!!

[Glowstick]

So they're using the Photoshop font antialiaser, huh?

[macster]

Very nice. Has a lot of nice elements from OS X

[DJLunacy]

Wow that looks very slick.

I will give that a spin when it's released.

Finally 1,000 POSTS!!! Took Long enough :)

[Unto Darkness]

This is a shell replacement for Vista, not XP.

Rubbish. Look here.

[daniel_rh]

Mmm!, I like it! interesting the horizontal and vertical menus for the Start menu

[Rappy Veteran]

Looks very purty! :p

[Starbuck84]

Wow, also I like the way the start menu is organized, looking good! :)

[Angel Blue01]

The file manager doesn't make it clear what the buttons are -what's copy/paste/cut? Please put in menus for keyboard access

[Thrawn]

I guess I'm the only one whos reaction was "Ewww" :s