Agreed. I tinkered a bit with the launchpad in MacOS 10.7 (iOS-style application launcher) and it just feels so... silly. It's a little more intuitive if you have a touchpad or one of those flat, touch-sensitive Apple mice. But it's absolutely dreadful if you use any other type of mouse. I know that it's optional and that they're just trying to blur the gap between iPads/Pods/Phones and Macs, but who knows how far Apple plans to take this in future releases. I suspect it is in preparation for touchscreen Macs.
This is also what worries me about Windows 8. As nice as it probably will be on a tablet, I really am not fond of navigating the new Metro start screen using a mouse. I am keeping an open mind because it's premature to pass judgement based on the developer preview. They may yet make it more mouse-friendly or better yet, give users the option to have a classic start menu for their desktop computers.
Thanks for posting this; it is the first thoughtful analysis I have seen on the UI flaws in iOS. I have read a lot of public discussions on the matter but they always quickly deteriorate to childish "iFan" vs "Fanroid" arguments (see Engadget) which never really highlight what exactly the considerable differences are between the two UI philosophies. I am an iOS user myself, and while I am comfortable using it, I can fully acknowledge and agree with all of the points and inconsistencies you raise about it.
This story is extremely relevant to the Slashdot community. No doubt that KDE 4.7 is well-refined. However, KDE 4 and KDE 3 differ significantly in both how they are developed and how they are used. To have the KDE 3.5 forked into an actively-developed fork will not downplay KDE 4's significance nor its own active development. This just gives us users a choice between two considerably different desktop environments. People who like KDE 4 will stay with it, and people who don't like KDE 4 abandoned it a long time ago, so there's no harm done by keeping its predecessor alive under a different name.
Well, Apple can wail fruitlessly on Samsung all they like but they're not trying to push their OS through every tablet manufacturer known to man. Give Microsoft some more time and they'll start to try to push Windows 8 out onto every tablet manufacturer just as aggressively as they do with every PC manufacturer. Then we'll have the same scrupulosity (or lack thereof) in the microcosmic smartphone and tablet worlds.
I doubt that it would be tainted by Microsoft any more than it had been tainted by Google. That is to say, very little (if not at all). It's not like Microsoft bought out Mozilla.
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I thought the same thing and spent some time with it when 11.04 was released. I'm always interested in taking new UI ideas for a spin but decided that Unity was so stifling, buggy and limited in functionality that I yearned for a Windows UI by the end of it.
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'Nobody would like this happening to their young boy or girl.'
Quite frankly, I would not be at all phased if somebody simply texted the phrase "athlete's foot" to my daughter.
Because Desura is made to be accessible for any Linux distro, and not just Ubuntu.
Your sig is delightfully appropriate.
So the message is that something fun and lighthearted can be made from the skinning of live animals?
Gotcha. =)
Agreed. I tinkered a bit with the launchpad in MacOS 10.7 (iOS-style application launcher) and it just feels so... silly. It's a little more intuitive if you have a touchpad or one of those flat, touch-sensitive Apple mice. But it's absolutely dreadful if you use any other type of mouse. I know that it's optional and that they're just trying to blur the gap between iPads/Pods/Phones and Macs, but who knows how far Apple plans to take this in future releases. I suspect it is in preparation for touchscreen Macs.
This is also what worries me about Windows 8. As nice as it probably will be on a tablet, I really am not fond of navigating the new Metro start screen using a mouse. I am keeping an open mind because it's premature to pass judgement based on the developer preview. They may yet make it more mouse-friendly or better yet, give users the option to have a classic start menu for their desktop computers.
Thanks for posting this; it is the first thoughtful analysis I have seen on the UI flaws in iOS. I have read a lot of public discussions on the matter but they always quickly deteriorate to childish "iFan" vs "Fanroid" arguments (see Engadget) which never really highlight what exactly the considerable differences are between the two UI philosophies. I am an iOS user myself, and while I am comfortable using it, I can fully acknowledge and agree with all of the points and inconsistencies you raise about it.
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MacOS X is a race car in the same way a sedan is a race car?
My day can now start on a happy note. Thanks for that. :)
I've always told people that our red neighbor is almost certainly fragrant of cinnamon.
I agree with your right to choose to think it's "retarded".
I disagree with your claim that it is a waste of time.
This story is extremely relevant to the Slashdot community. No doubt that KDE 4.7 is well-refined. However, KDE 4 and KDE 3 differ significantly in both how they are developed and how they are used. To have the KDE 3.5 forked into an actively-developed fork will not downplay KDE 4's significance nor its own active development. This just gives us users a choice between two considerably different desktop environments. People who like KDE 4 will stay with it, and people who don't like KDE 4 abandoned it a long time ago, so there's no harm done by keeping its predecessor alive under a different name.
People who like to customize their operating environment don't like to use an operating environment they can't customize!
Well, Apple can wail fruitlessly on Samsung all they like but they're not trying to push their OS through every tablet manufacturer known to man. Give Microsoft some more time and they'll start to try to push Windows 8 out onto every tablet manufacturer just as aggressively as they do with every PC manufacturer. Then we'll have the same scrupulosity (or lack thereof) in the microcosmic smartphone and tablet worlds.
I doubt that it would be tainted by Microsoft any more than it had been tainted by Google. That is to say, very little (if not at all). It's not like Microsoft bought out Mozilla.
The memory leaks haven't been enough to turn me away from Firefox in recent times, but its instability sure has.
Yeah, I finally decided if I'm going to use something that is desperately trying to mimic Chrome, I might as well just use Chrome.
...and then I saw that the OP was our astroturfing friend. I respectfully withdraw.
I don't think you know what "trolling" means.
I thought the same thing and spent some time with it when 11.04 was released. I'm always interested in taking new UI ideas for a spin but decided that Unity was so stifling, buggy and limited in functionality that I yearned for a Windows UI by the end of it.
Hello, XFCE.
Spend some time with each of them. You'll see.
Or, you know, it could have been just a joke.
"Vileness," on the other hand, can be spread.
I think your on to something.
This discussion thread which rooted in punctuation Nazism is about to go full circle...