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Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch
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Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch


  • Subject: Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch
  • From: "Kyle Sluder" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:45:52 -0400

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Bill Royds <email@hidden> wrote:
> Not necessarily. You are assuming that all other interfaces are inferior to
> Macintosh interfaces.

No, I am asserting that not following the conventions established on
the Mac is inferior to following those conventions, regardless of
whether you're following those of some other platform.

> Depending on the application, there may have been a
> great deal of work in designing an interface specifica to a particular
> discipline.

See Photoshop, Illustrator, 3DS Max... all of which are criticized for
behaving counter to user expectation.  And for an extreme example of
what happens when you let programmers make these sorts of decisions,
look at Blender.

> The layout may be a "standard" form required by law or other
> convention. I am not suggesting that one port the code, just the forms and
> menu labels.

I know of no statute that mandates Look & Feel, and I seriously doubt
one exists.  As for "other convention", typically people are talking
about fear of user re-education.  But we're talking about porting an
application to the Macintosh, which means either a version for the Mac
didn't exist before, or the one that did exist was considered
insufficient and needed to be replaced.

> Once they are ported to a nib, they can be modified to better
> conform to Mac HI guidelines.

This will require so much effort as to be pointless.  And it would
probably result in a poor interface with the design patterns that
permeate Cocoa.

>   But until there is an pathway to port applications at all, there is no
> incentive to even create the applications on a Mac.

Rubbish, poppycock, and an absolute falsehood.  You are assuming that
all applications written for the Mac are inferior to applications
written for other platforms.

--Kyle Sluder
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 >Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch (From: Bill Royds <email@hidden>)
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 >Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch (From: Bill Royds <email@hidden>)

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