I feel dirty
Notice the dock in the bottom left….
Avant-window-navigator screenshot
I have to say, I actually like it. Not just from an eye-candy perspective, but from a usability perspective as well.
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Notice the dock in the bottom left….
Avant-window-navigator screenshot
I have to say, I actually like it. Not just from an eye-candy perspective, but from a usability perspective as well.
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Why dirty? Docks are so much more efficient than a menu for frequent stuff. Okay I’ll concede that this shamelessly rips off the Leopard dock… But I also have to say I like Tiger (almost as much as Kit likes Leopard). I find my hands rarely leave the keys when I use it on my Macs that run it. It also has a disturbing level of polish that has really ruined my tolerance of other windowing systems. The only real problem I run into is I forget all the shortcuts for a few minutes after I’ve been working on a Linux workstation all day.
I have to say, though: when I wasn’t soft and just used Windowmaker (which is, semi-ironically a NeXTSTEP knockoff), making a bunch of bash scripts and keyboard shortcuts to launch all my stuff was way more efficient than my gnome setup now despite the fact that all I have to do is bang my mouse in the bottom corner and click what I need.
Yeah. I try to do pretty much everything with keyboard shortcuts. I hate menu’s. I’d rather have a launcher/dock then menu’s, even if I don’t use the dock to launch applications too much. What I find the dock the most useful for is event notification. Let’s say I’m emerging a series of apps. When it moves on to the next app, the icon will light up and “emerging 7 (of 13)” or whatever will pop up above the icon for a handful of seconds. Just little things like that, especially since I usually have stuff spread out across 4+ workspaces. It’s actually got a fair amount of polish to it for something that’s rather new.
I say “I feel dirty” for a few reasons:
1) I still associate macs with yuppee artsy douches who have them because they’re trendy. My girlfriend’s in theater, and everyone who went to her school had macs because they were “awesome”. Yet they couldn’t tell you a damned thing about the actual technology. It looked pretty, though.
(I know that generalization isn’t representative of the majority of macs userbase, but generalizations typically aren’t. It’s just the first thing that comes to mind for me).
2) I’m not usually one for eye candy on my desktop. This kinda goes against my typical beliefs.
I don’t have a problem with art on the desktop when it works well. Enlightenment is a good example even though their default “bling” theme gave me a sour taste.
I don’t have a problem with artsy douches liking it as long as it works for me. I guess one way to think of it is those yuppies help it continue to exist whereas people who don’t like to spend money, like us, on faddy bullshit could care less. But I see your point.
Yeah. I mean, I don’t dislike Macs for that reason, and in fact some day I’d like to pick a cheap one up just to play with it, but that crowd kinda bothers me.
Then again, every OS has an annoying side.
I yearn for the day I can run an OS that is happy on any hardware, runs all the software I need it to, is free or mostly free and stable…. and doesn’t look like a pile of shit.
I think that’s a pretty tall order.
Yeah. Amen.
I think it looks good. Dual monitors as well I see. What video card are you using?
This is just my work computer, so nothing too fancy. A GeForce 7300.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1)