les meat
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
Location: The sea
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 Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:51 pm |
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Thank god Microsoft have finally joined the 20th century and offloaded desktop compositing to the GPU, for the past 4 years its been agony using windows instead of osx because I would really notice all that shitty redrawing when you dragged windows and closed things. So thats excellent, if a little too late.
However
So sad to still see windows 95/98 icons and windows 2000 icons cropping up in the odd window.
For god sake learn some consistency, you should have chucked every single icon resource out and redone the lot with this version.
http://screenshots.haque.net/screenshots/view/32704/screenshot-32704.png
this bugs me on the vista machine at work, why the hell are the corners of the notifications aliased, you went to the trouble of making it transparent but then you didn't smooth out the corners.
Looks like garbage
Also the shadows on the desktop text are way too square and chubby, no idea whats going wrong with the text drop shadow system but I've never seen a shadow that looks so wrong before.
Could list hundreds of other small things but I wont
Might seem like little things to some people, but when your job requires that you scrutinise your work like this then you can't help but notice these things and they bug the hell out of you. And when I see things like this then I know that the interface designers are not paying close enough attention to their work.
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I hope Vista causes Apple to include something everyone has wanted in OSX from day one: themes. I like how Vista has that simple theme switcher. Want a pinkish interface? Blue? Red? |
Apple will never let you change Aqua dramatically, I think they follow the theory of that allowing a theme is admitting your solution is not as good as it should be. Which I can understand considering the amount of work they put into interface design an usability.
Although I think at some point in the future they will let us hue-shift the blue/graphite components, because it would need to be done in real time so applications throughout the system that use custom graphics can do it too.
Or you could just install Shapeshifter :)
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