Re: No stripes (was has' rant)
Re: No stripes (was has' rant)
- Subject: Re: No stripes (was has' rant)
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 01:58:05 +0100
This from Paul Berkowitz - dated 7-10-02 12.07 am:
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I don't know what you mean about "clear customer demand". Nick.
That assessment was the result of a quick trawl around the web looking for
stuff about stripes in OS X, not a reflection of views expressed on this
list.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, you hang out with a bunch of geeks here.
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Don't like stripes, don't like Aqua, don't like HTML, don't like anything
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"pretty", don't like "attractive design". It's all plain, plain, plain here.
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(NOT everyone, please don't get annoyed Michelle, I don't mean you, OK? ;-))
There was nothing inherently philistine in my comment about Apple's desire
to keep Aqua pure. 'Attractive design' is what I spend much of my
professional life striving for, and I like my work environment to be
just so. To which end I've spent far too much time making pretty pictures
and icons to beautify it with.
I have embraced the stripes, and most of what constitutes the 'Aqua' look,
but it's needlessly difficult to change things like the cheesy toolbar icons
for 'Favorites' & 'Home', and I could arrange my toolbars much more
effectively if a 'flexible space' was available.
The option to use pictures and colours as folder backgrounds is very
welcome, and more than just window dressing. With all the different library
folders in OS X this can be used to identify which is which when two
similarly named folders are open at the same time. But the implementation is
half-hearted: there is no option to tile pictures used as folder
backgrounds, the feature is only available in icon view, and the lack of a
setting that lets a picture or colour cascade through nested folders is a
dismal, labour-making omission.
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I happen to like stripes, Aqua, HTML (if well done)... Anyway, you can always
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go spend time in the Terminal. That's pretty plain.
:(
Misrepresented. After noticing has' Mission Impossible style anti-stripe
challenge, I went skipping off to Google to see what I could see. I was
surprised to find that every link to the elusive 'unlined charcoal' theme
was broken or mislaid, and the only solution I could actually download
screwed my system so badly that it couldn't get past login. There seemed to
be a whiff of big brother about this 'paucity of options for nixing the
stripes'. That's all.
I suppose I shouldn't take your occasional shoot-from-the-hip drive-bys too
much to heart ;-)
Nick
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