"Nick Sabalausky" <seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com> wrote in message news:jpe6kk$235b$1...@digitalmars.com... > "Nick Sabalausky" <seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com> wrote in message > news:jpe4ru$13e8$1...@digitalmars.com... >> "David Nadlinger" <s...@klickverbot.at> wrote in message >> news:lvpmnrfdyinxvkzus...@forum.dlang.org... >>> GitHub have just released their Windows GUI for Git/GitHub: >>> >>> http://windows.github.com/ >>> >>> Although I'm not sure if it really stands up to the promise of >>> being »the easiest way to use Git on Windows«, it might be interesting >>> to some of you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner >>> workings of Git. >>> >>> The release announcement is at: >>> https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows. >>> >> >> Finally! >> >> I still don't understand what posessd them to do a Mac version first. >> Nobody uses Mac. >> > > Jesus, it's almost as bad as their web interface. I don't know how the > hell they managed that, I'd think you have to *try* to make a desktop app > that bad. > > Upon initial startup: "An unhandled win32 exception occurred in > GitHub.exe". Great. > > Then it runs anyway? But there's *no* titlebar whatsoever. And everything > else about it is the most poorly-implemented custom-UI I've ever come > across. Gratuitus amounts of wasted space. Controls that behave...wrong > and don't even look *at all* like what they're supposed to be (*that* is > supposed to be a scroll-bar?). Constant...shit...popping up every time you > touch the mouse. And as far as looks, I'd say it's the ugliest program > I've used since Chrome, but honesty - it's really is uglier than even > that. They actually managed to make things like Steam and modern *Adobe* > UIs seem decent! I didn't think that was even *possible* without VB3. > > And on top of that, it's *still* bloatware-city. > > Seriously, I could *swear* they made this stupid thing in flash. That > actually wouldn't surprise me at all. > > OTOH, I completely understand now why it started out on Mac. No doubt it > would fit right in there. > > Oh, and the final nail in the coffin, big enough to make everything else > completely irrelevent? You can't even use it to do *anything* with > GitHub-hosted repos other than list *your* repos, view the readme, and > make a local clone. And you can't even choose *where* to put the local > clone! Seriously? What a completely useless turd of a *cough*"program". > > Bah. Fuck GitHub. Head up their asses just as far as Google. >
Hah, and as if all that wan't bad enough, I just noticed on the announcement page that it *cough*"features" "silent, automated updates". I get the impression this is the sort of program where updates would likely just make things worse. Oh and also on the announcement page: "No-options installation!", like *programmers* are expected to be too stupid to hande standard installation options? Jeez, "know your audience", people. At least it uninstalled easily enough.