What's clear to you may not be clear to me. Having 300 icons on a toolbar with menus that go 5-6 levels deep for common tasks (Microsoft Outlook) isn't my idea of a productive interface. Make the common tasks easy to find, and if any power users want the power options, they should be power users enough to know how to go looking for them, be it a customized toolbar or a alternate keypress.
But hey, if you don't like it, do what Linus says!
No, it isn't confusing. It's just a matter of balance.
For every single time someone actually clicks on that rarely used, osbscure advanced option, you have 100 people like me cursing at having to wade through endless menus, toolbars and buttons just to click the "Paste" button.
On the Windows version of iTunes, there is a right click context menu, but you can also use Shift-click on the Add Playlist Button like the Mac, as mentioned before. It's your choice.
This is no different than certain functions in other programs, especially Adobe Photoshop or even Windows itself (Shift-click to mass select, Ctrl-click to individually select). Screen clutter is kept to a minimum for people who never use these advanced features, but can be discovered by those who do want them.
Ah, but see, what you're seeing on the Mac is actually elegant simplicity. There's power lurking there.
Sure the playlist selector in iTunes only has one button to add a new playlist, but hold down the Shift key while your mouse is in the playlist area and the button turns into an add new Smart playlist button. Or in the Browse area, click on the column header to Genre, Artist or Album and you zoom back to the top of the list.
These sort of rewards await those who explore. But for the faint of heart, the simple interface still functions.
What were those probes called? Dorothy-1 and Dorothy-2 I think. They release all those metal tennis balls into the swirling vortex and they quickly get nifty graphs on their laptop computers.
Temporary solution to a radio tuner? I seriously doubt my radio is going to play just the stuff I want, have a backlock of saved episodes, and be ad-free anytime soon.
And besides, isn't the whole idea of an iPod to be "on the road"? If I wasn't, I'd save the cash and stick to listening to everything in the free iTunes.
Well, a somewhat ugly workaround is to label all your own tv show recordings "My TV Show", either as an addition to the track name or just put that text in some other field of your choice. Then just make a Smart Playlist called something like "My TV Shows" and filter everything with "My TV Show" in that field.
Of course they are unrelated. But if you've ever been around a call center with substandard CSRs who do not know what they are doing, they rely entirely on scripts for troubleshooting. And when there isn't a script to tell them how do fix a certain problem, the first solution out of their mouths are either "reboot the PC" or "put in your System Restore disk".
Hope that helps. I'm really not an idiot or stupid. I am kinda dorky, however...
With Gentoo I compiled and installed only what I need. It runs well as a basic Internet browsing, email checking machine running under Gnome. The bootup is far, far snappier than it was running Fedora Core (!!), as in seconds vs minutes.
Get a load of the Worksheet name at the bottom, "Visuals". It's got that same craptastic white-font on "shiny water" effect that the "improved" Windows Media Player 10 has.
What's really amazing is Microsoft pays their UI people big money to come up with this stuff.
There's no harm in not knowing who Trey Anastasio is (lead singer/guitarist of Phish), but not being able to acknowledge the greatness that is Neil Diamond and Ricky Martin frightens and confuses me.
If it's application installation you have a beef with, I don't see how Gentoo could make the OpenOffice installation any easier than:
# emerge openoffice
I get the newest version of OpenOffice downloaded, compiled and installed.
If it's the application availability you have a beef with, then take it up with those applications.
And as far as the keyboard-mouse interoperability issues you have with Linux applications, I can find comparable issues with Windows applications. For instance, in Windows Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins work about 75% of the time for copy and paste in different apps. Or how Outlook defaults to a cryptic to find folder when it wants to save Outlook Template files without making it clear in the Explorer tree that it just did that for you... makes finding those template files again real fun.
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What's clear to you may not be clear to me. Having 300 icons on a toolbar with menus that go 5-6 levels deep for common tasks (Microsoft Outlook) isn't my idea of a productive interface. Make the common tasks easy to find, and if any power users want the power options, they should be power users enough to know how to go looking for them, be it a customized toolbar or a alternate keypress.
But hey, if you don't like it, do what Linus says!
No, it isn't confusing. It's just a matter of balance.
For every single time someone actually clicks on that rarely used, osbscure advanced option, you have 100 people like me cursing at having to wade through endless menus, toolbars and buttons just to click the "Paste" button.
On the Windows version of iTunes, there is a right click context menu, but you can also use Shift-click on the Add Playlist Button like the Mac, as mentioned before. It's your choice.
This is no different than certain functions in other programs, especially Adobe Photoshop or even Windows itself (Shift-click to mass select, Ctrl-click to individually select). Screen clutter is kept to a minimum for people who never use these advanced features, but can be discovered by those who do want them.
Ah, but see, what you're seeing on the Mac is actually elegant simplicity. There's power lurking there.
Sure the playlist selector in iTunes only has one button to add a new playlist, but hold down the Shift key while your mouse is in the playlist area and the button turns into an add new Smart playlist button. Or in the Browse area, click on the column header to Genre, Artist or Album and you zoom back to the top of the list.
These sort of rewards await those who explore. But for the faint of heart, the simple interface still functions.
What were those probes called? Dorothy-1 and Dorothy-2 I think. They release all those metal tennis balls into the swirling vortex and they quickly get nifty graphs on their laptop computers.
As much as it makes me itch all over to say this, but why is hard drive space a problem?
Temporary solution to a radio tuner? I seriously doubt my radio is going to play just the stuff I want, have a backlock of saved episodes, and be ad-free anytime soon.
And besides, isn't the whole idea of an iPod to be "on the road"? If I wasn't, I'd save the cash and stick to listening to everything in the free iTunes.
Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" still costs $0.99, it's not exactly a new release either.
Video was introduced to iTunes in iTunes 6.
So currently there is no video option for Linux users even with Crossover Office and iTunes.
Well, a somewhat ugly workaround is to label all your own tv show recordings "My TV Show", either as an addition to the track name or just put that text in some other field of your choice. Then just make a Smart Playlist called something like "My TV Shows" and filter everything with "My TV Show" in that field.
I think they buried in the Lotus tomb, next to the OS/2.
Of course they are unrelated. But if you've ever been around a call center with substandard CSRs who do not know what they are doing, they rely entirely on scripts for troubleshooting. And when there isn't a script to tell them how do fix a certain problem, the first solution out of their mouths are either "reboot the PC" or "put in your System Restore disk".
Hope that helps. I'm really not an idiot or stupid. I am kinda dorky, however...
Call centers around the world are now going to be deprived of their #1 troubleshooting step.
The only thing they have left now is the System Restore disk.
Now call centers are going to have to hire people who do more than just read scripts.
It's calling "online gambling" because you don't have to leave your house to lose money gambling with thousands of other Texas Hold Em freaks.
Take out the "online" and its just you and your cat staring at a deck of cards in your living room.
Yeah, we just got electricity out here a few years ago.
I hear that US Robotics company has a pretty good selection of 14.4 modems coming out soon.
I can pay a buck for the Sunday paper and get a tree trunk's worth of printed ads.
Or, I can browse to a website for free and nuke the ads with Adblock.
I guess someone's definition of a "relaxing read" is purely generational.
And this is at work. I haven't tried it at home yet.
With Gentoo I compiled and installed only what I need. It runs well as a basic Internet browsing, email checking machine running under Gnome. The bootup is far, far snappier than it was running Fedora Core (!!), as in seconds vs minutes.
Well, while they're not compiling Gentoo in 15 minutes, they could be in clusters to run the Matrix.
I've heard that one from Sun before.
FTFA:
:)
"However, eEye is now testing whether the flaw also affects iTunes running on Mac operating systems."
Well, as of now it's only Windows.
Get a load of the Worksheet name at the bottom, "Visuals". It's got that same craptastic white-font on "shiny water" effect that the "improved" Windows Media Player 10 has.
What's really amazing is Microsoft pays their UI people big money to come up with this stuff.
There's no harm in not knowing who Trey Anastasio is (lead singer/guitarist of Phish), but not being able to acknowledge the greatness that is Neil Diamond and Ricky Martin frightens and confuses me.
If it's application installation you have a beef with, I don't see how Gentoo could make the OpenOffice installation any easier than:
# emerge openoffice
I get the newest version of OpenOffice downloaded, compiled and installed.
If it's the application availability you have a beef with, then take it up with those applications.
And as far as the keyboard-mouse interoperability issues you have with Linux applications, I can find comparable issues with Windows applications. For instance, in Windows Ctrl-Ins and Shift-Ins work about 75% of the time for copy and paste in different apps. Or how Outlook defaults to a cryptic to find folder when it wants to save Outlook Template files without making it clear in the Explorer tree that it just did that for you... makes finding those template files again real fun.
Capitalism in action.