Re: metallized interface
Re: metallized interface
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 06:18:06PM +0000, Keith Pritchard wrote:
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I'm not considering earlier versions of macos because they had enough
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GUI problems IMHO so as to make any discussion about metal or otherwise
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insignificant.
OK, all I can say is that I disagree with you here. OS X's UI is
downright sloppy compared to what came before it.
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>There is a pretty consistent history of different UI treatment for real
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>world device and single window apps going back to the Mac's
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>introduction. It hasn't been available as a standard feature until
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>Jaguar, so it was always harder to implement, but I hope people will
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>continue to use the same restraint they always did.
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I doubt it.
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I never *really* made the switch to mac before macosx, despite buying
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them regularly and keeping up to date with things. I never liked the
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aged OS.
So everyone else is like you? The vast majority of people using Mac
OS X are going to have used Mac OS 9 and earlier before, expecting
continuity in UI design, and they include the same "professional
users" who are -not- buying Mac OS X because it's still slow, flaky
and cumbersome to use, despite whatever garbage Apple might say about
them waiting for QuarkXPress. If you're used to Windows, try running
Windows 2000 or XP on hardware equivalent to a current Mac and observe
how much more responsive it is. These people are going to have to
upgrade their hardware after January, and if OS X isn't ready for
them, Windows already is.
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...however, already people are asking how to make all the windows metal
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irrespective of the "guidelines" so it's well worth pointing out why
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it's a bad idea as a user experience.
There have always been Mac programs with horrible interfaces. People
just don't buy them for the most part, unless they have no other
choices.
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=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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