Yeah, but here is the thing. System Preferences, that works. Fusion's
preferences, though they may have a Mac like look, simply don't. By
the way, its hard to make an interface on the Mac now that comes up
with "unknown" unless you're redefining the wheel. Radio buttons,
icons, animations, whatever, everything is covered in XCode. Even the
animations are accessible if you don't try and reinvent them and use
CoreAnimation.
Now once in a while a custom interface is really a good idea. Even
though we can't use the Effects pane of Audio Hijack, Audio Hijack
Pro, and NiceCast, the design is wonderful for the visual user. Now,
could you argue that the interface could be made accessible, for sure.
Since that seems to be an afterthought would it be a time and resource
consuming drain on what seems to be one or two developers, you bet.
Accessible development starts right at the first window you mark up,
and if it doesn't, fixing the problem later is no different than
adding ramps and elevators to a poorly thought out building.
Ryan
On Jul 31, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:
Well, in 1.2.2 the settings pane is very easy to navigate, however,
in 2.0 beta 1 and now beta 2, VO identifies the categories as
"unknown." I frankly like the way the settings looked in 1.2.2, but
VmWare apparently wants to make it look more like the Mac system
preferences pane.
Steve
On Jul 31, 2008, at 4:30 PM, will lomas wrote:
settings seem fine to me in the fusion i have
On 31 Jul 2008, at 21:05, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:
Just wanted to let folks know that there's a new beta version of
Vmware's Fusion, beta 2 released yesterday. Although the machine
settings pane is just as difficult to use as it was in beta 1,
they've revamped the "express setup" assistants making them both
easier to use and more accessible. I'm still playing around with
it having just installed the new version, however, it seems that
audio works a bit better. I know there's been some discussion on
the list concerning Ubuntu, so will try installing that next.
For more info, go to www.vmware.com and follow the links to Fusion.
Steve
