Oh, yeah. Blame open source for your UI pickiness. Hell, blame GNU and FSF for whatever reason on earth you find.
While I disagree with the assertion that open source equals bad UI design, this is often indeed the case. Notably exceptions such as Adium do exist, but are in the clear minority.
I find people's passion about GEß's UI interesting. Tell me, you you hate the Windows interface so much? Because at the moment, they're the same except for the background and sliders.
It's not the interface of the app as such, but the elements.
A Mac OS X app can look and feel like the Windows version and look like a proper Mac OS X app.
Google Earth is using the wrong tabs, the wrong fonts, incorrect spacing around elements, incorrect sized elements and so on and so on.
It is possible to use the correct elements and still let the app have the same user interface (not look) as the Windows version.
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Originally posted by Aquatic
Like someone said, it looks like an open source app. ugly.
Oh, yeah. Blame open source for your UI pickiness. Hell, blame GNU and FSF for whatever reason on earth you find.
Originally posted by Gene Clean
Oh, yeah. Blame open source for your UI pickiness. Hell, blame GNU and FSF for whatever reason on earth you find.
While I disagree with the assertion that open source equals bad UI design, this is often indeed the case. Notably exceptions such as Adium do exist, but are in the clear minority.
http://web.archive.org/web/200310080...cuss/msgReader$173
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http://web.archive.org/web/200310080...cuss/msgReader$182
[Screenshot of Google Earth on a Mac]
It got leaked this morning, it runs very nice on my G5 1.8.
Here's the page featuring a download link and some info about it...
[anders edit]3rd time: NO LINKS TO THE DOWNLOAD OR WHERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT[/anders edit]
Originally posted by PathDæmon
I find people's passion about GEß's UI interesting. Tell me, you you hate the Windows interface so much? Because at the moment, they're the same except for the background and sliders.
It's not the interface of the app as such, but the elements.
A Mac OS X app can look and feel like the Windows version and look like a proper Mac OS X app.
Google Earth is using the wrong tabs, the wrong fonts, incorrect spacing around elements, incorrect sized elements and so on and so on.
It is possible to use the correct elements and still let the app have the same user interface (not look) as the Windows version.
Google earth beta for Mac Os X is to my knowledge not a public beta. Therefore you cannot link to it or descriptions on how to get it here.
If Google have made it public please sent me a PM where they say so and I will reopen the topic WITH links...