On 18 Jul, 2006, at 12:36, Pieter Hartsook wrote:
I was trying to think of a way to update the Chandler website about
what's new in alpha3. One thing that's new is native Intel support for
the Mac. But as far as I know there in no visible difference between
the Intel build and previous Mac builds.
Maybe we could either add a note to the About Chandler box stating
this is a native Intel build for the Mac, and/or add something to the
splash-screen when the program loads?
I'm not really the engineering contact for this kind of thing, but it
looks to me as if tweaking the splash screen (and/or the About
Chandler box) to show something platform and/or architecture specific
is mainly a testing issue (i.e. the code changes aren't hard).
Another option might be a way to change the app's version string to
include extra info, though I'm not so familiar with how the build
system produces the version string.
From a marketing perspective a picture is worth 1K words... A
screenshot showing something in the program that's unique to the
native Intel build is much more effective than just stating that in
text.
Any comments on how appropriate or difficult that would be get in the
the alpha3 release?
Well, the only "visible difference" of intel Chandler I can think of
would be speed, so maybe we should have a movie showing new-found Mac
blazingness :)?
Another suggestion is to have another window near Chandler in the
screen shot, proving it's an Intel Mac running the app. (Pedantically
speaking, that doesn't prove we built it for intel, though, it could
theoretically be running a PPC binary in Rosetta). The best thing I
can think of is the "Processors Palette", which shows your CPUs'
usage, and has fairly prominent intel chip-like icons.
--Grant
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