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Ambient is a MUI

Magic User Interface

The Magic User Interface is an Object-oriented programming system by Stefan Stuntz to generate and maintain graphical user interfaces. With the aid of a preferences program, the user of an application has the ability to customize the outfit according to personal taste....
based desktop environment

Desktop environment

In graphical computing, a desktop environment commonly refers to a style of graphical user interface that is based on the desktop metaphor which can be seen on most modern personal computers today....
for MorphOS

MorphOS

MorphOS is a computer operating system . It is a mixed proprietary software and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC -processor-based computer, most models of PPC-accelerator-equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi Firmware, including the EFIKA and mobileGT....
. Its development was started in 2001 by David Gerber. Main goals were that should be simple and fast. Ambient remotely resembles Workbench

AmigaOS

AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000....
and Directory Opus

Directory Opus

Directory Opus is a popular file manager program, originally written for the Amiga computer system in the early to mid 1990s. Development on the Amiga version ceased in 1997, but an entirely re-written version of Directory Opus is still being actively developed and sold for the Microsoft Windows operating system by ....
Magellan trying to mix the best of both worlds.

Ambient is localized for various languages and while part of MorphOS it is also available separately.

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Ambient is a MUI

Magic User Interface

Desktop environment

MorphOS

AmigaOS

Directory Opus

Features

support for ARexx
ARexx

ARexx is an implementation of the REXX language for the Amiga, written in 1987 by William S. Hawes, with a number of Amiga-specific features beyond standard REXX facilities....
scripting language
default icon library for hundreds of fileformats
fully asynchronous, multi-threaded design
fast asynchronous file I/O functions and file notifications
supports PNG icons and various Amiga
Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
icon formats
built-in icon, workbench and wbstart libraries
built-in applications like disk formatting and commodities manager
panels which are used as program launchers

Ambient is localized for various languages and while part of MorphOS it is also available separately. There are various visual effects in Ambient which are taking an advantage of hardware accelerated visual effects in MorphOS.

Status

In 2005 David Gerber released Ambient source code under GPL and is now developed by the Ambient development team.

Ambient desktop

Features

Status

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