BeOS Interface

BeOS インターフェース / 1995–2001 / Style / Platform Screen Languages

Be's interface language threw away the full width title bar and put a short yellow tab on the top edge of each window instead. The user's guide calls sliding that tab a unique feature of Be windows: hold Shift and the tab travels sideways, so stacked windows leave a row of visible tabs rather than burying one another.

Only the front window's tab is yellow; every other window keeps a gray tab / The tab is as wide as the window's name, not as wide as the window / Holding Shift and dragging the tab slides it along the top edge of the window / The Deskbar stands in the upper right corner with running applications stacked below it

BeOS Interface — Tullius《BeOS の画面》2005年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 — Tullius《BeOS の画面》2005年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 ／ Deavmi《Haiku のターミナル設定窓》2017年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 ／ Avodjag《Haiku の Deskbar メニュー》2013年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0

BeOS Interface — Deavmi《Haiku のターミナル設定窓》2017年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 — Tullius《BeOS の画面》2005年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 ／ Deavmi《Haiku のターミナル設定窓》2017年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 ／ Avodjag《Haiku の Deskbar メニュー》2013年 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0

Dictionary entry

Best used for: A workspace where many windows stay open at once and every window's label must survive being overlapped · Making an interface that reads as clearly not-the-others through a single decision rather than more color
Type: A small sans, one line of it, living inside the tab; names get cut short rather than trailing into an ellipsis.
Composition: The tab occupies only as much of the top edge as the name needs, and because tabs slide, window positions are chosen so overlapping windows line their tabs up in a row.
Material: One light gray carries the whole surface; only the front window's tab is painted yellow and the rest stay gray, with no third color invited in.
Caution: Spreading the yellow around as a general accent destroys its one job, marking the front window, and the tab drops to decoration.
Further study: BeOS User's Guide 4.5のA Look at BeOS Windowsの節（タブの黄と滑らせる操作の記述） / Haikuの現行ユーザーガイドが説明するStack & Tile（タブを束ねて窓を積む操作） / 実画面からタブの黄と地の灰を採寸し、対比の強さを数値で確かめる

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