On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 10:54:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote in message
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On 2012-05-21 21:56, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Nick Sabalausky"<seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com> wrote
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"David Nadlinger"<s...@klickverbot.at> wrote in message
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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.
Isn't that the new GUI for Windows 8 :
I wasn't running it on Win8. It was on XP.
I guess it's kinda like Chrome: Hey Google, imitate the native
UI all you
want, but the fakeness is pretty damn obvious when Aero
suddenly shows up on
an XP machine.
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-release-preview-rip-aero-20032012-143133
Oh, so it's that time of the week again already? Time for MS to
change their
minds once again on which is cool and uncool: straight vs
curved?
Egads, it's like they're spinning their wheels just for the
sake of spinning
them. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The computer
industry has
become the goddamn fasion industry.
Win3: Rounded edges! Couldn't have those before!
95: Rounded is so old. Stright-edged (*cough* like Win1&2
*cough*) is
classy!
XP: Straight edges and flat colors are sooo old-fasioned!
Roundess, curves
and gradients are in! ("Yea, whatever...Luna: Off, Classic: On")
Vista: Transperency is hip and modern! More curves! More
shading!
Win8: Transparency, curves, gradients and shading are sooo
old-fasioned!
Stright edges and flat colors are in!
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!
It's all change just for the sake of fucking change. Why most
of the world
seems to be so chronically blind to it is beyond me.
And then there's MS's "between-OS" styles-of-the-week, like in
the late 90's
when MS decided all their non-OS releases for one year should
use black menu
bars instead of system-default.
Make up your fucking mind, MS.
It's called Marketing and Sales department.
Every company that sells commercial products needs to keep adding
the "next big thing" to their product as a means to sell the
product to existing users.
Let's take Office as an example, for my usual tasks, I could
happily still use Word 6 from the Windows 3.11 days.
--
Paulo
