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>Mac OS X beta interface tour:
>http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/09/13/tour/intro.html
Some OS X anti-hype by me:
Mac OS X System Preferences:
http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/09/13/tour/2.html
Looks bad to me. Especially the sentence "these items are all
Apple-supplied, and third parties don't get to drop their own
controls in this application".
It's really easy to use the current Mac OS control panels. Control
Panels folder is just a similar folder like all the other folders. If
you don't need - let's say - "Sound" control panel, you just drag the
panel out of the folder and restart. The panels reserve less memory
after restart and the machine works a bit faster.
The best part is, that anyone can make system-wide third party
control panels. It's very clear and simple: If the control panel
affects the whole system, you'll find it in the Control Panels
folder... Too bad, if they're tossing this great feature by OS X...
Login Items:
http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/09/13/tour/4.html
Well, I'm not absolutely convinced, whether it's a good idea to make
different kinds of interfaces for every basic level functionality you
have... In current Mac OS, the applications that should be run during
the startup, can be just dragged and dropped to a folder called
"Startup Items" (inside System Folder). Most of the feel of "ease of
use" in current Mac OS comes from this: all the functionality follows
the same logic.
Sharing:
http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/09/13/tour/6.html
This is definitely a good thing: Goodbye AppleTalk! It sucks!
Window Fade:
http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/09/13/tour/7.html
One question: Where you can turn it off?
HTML.Edit:
http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/09/13/tour/11.html
This looks promising: A wysiwyg HTML editor shipped with the
operating system...
Open dialog:
http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/09/13/tour/12.html
There are two interface elements that does the same job in this
window: The popup menu that tell you where you are (like in current
Mac OS) and the leftmost column... This is Windows-logic: "Let's put
all the possibilities there, because we're not quite sure, which one
is the best..." ... and the user will _never_ learn the logic of your
user interface (because there isn't any logic in it...)
Then again, the text field, where you can directly write the path of
the file to be opened, is a good improvement, imho. Very often it's
faster to just write the path. Currently... I've ended up using
Sherlock (the search tool of Mac OS) for just opening files. I
usually remember, where they are located, but it's faster to write
the file name into Sherlock and open the file from there (by
double-clicking the icon) than surf the hard disk with the cumbersome
Open dialog...
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