Re: metallized interface
Re: metallized interface
- Subject: Re: metallized interface
- From: email@hidden (Angela Brett)
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:14:53 +1300
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I have a 1.3ghz athlon with XP next to an 800mhz macosx powerbook at
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this minute. Give me macosx on the powerbook every single time! Even
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though its unix, less HD thrashing, more stability and I can't say
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since 10.2 I've ever been bugged by slowness on macosx (other than the
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rediculously inadequate help viewer)
Tell me about it! I have a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 at work, and it can be much slower than my 466MHz G3 running OS X... it often takes several (up to 50 - I've timed it) seconds to painstakingly draw a window section by section. The only thing slow on Mac OS X is applications starting up, and even then at least I can go off and do something else while I wait. And XP is the king of GUI inconsistency... there are 3 to 7 different visual styles of each kind of widget.
I'm not sure about textured windows. All in all, I like them (especially when they really represent a physical device... I've never had a metal address book though) but sometimes it seems like there are two kinds of window just for the sake of it. I know there are guidelines for when to use the textured windows, and if we all stick rigidly to those guidelines (which is impossible to do since they seem to be quite flexible guidelines) it will be okay. At least the textured windows were put in there deliberately instead of being leftovers from countless other versions of the OS. But I sometimes feel a bit unconfortable about it when I complain about the rampant GUI inconsistency in Windows and then see a gratuitous brushed metal window on an OS X app.
As for sheets etc, I think for the sake of consistency they should always have the pinstripes. It's more important that something as fundamental as an open or save dialogue is the same across the entire OS than that it's the same as your app's window. I dislike Netscape 6 for a similar reason... its theming is supposedly to make it look the same on every OS, but since I switch between applications far more often than I switch between OSes, I'd much prefer that it looks like all the other apps on the computer I'm actually using it on.
If you're really picky about consistency, I'd expect you wouldn't want to use the metal look at all since the whole idea of having two different kinds of window isn't 100% consistent, as I mentioned in my second paragraph. I think if your application is going to be using sheets and open/close dialogues a lot, it probably isn't well suited to the metal look as we're supposed to use it anyway... how often does a real-world device ask you where to put its data? Besides that, translucent metal sheets would look ridiculous. :)
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