On 2009-08-13, at 17:00, a b wrote: > >> Now let's work on OpenMac. OpenSolaris with Cocoa interface:) >> >> Haha, one can dream:) > > But that's all just eye candy!
For me, as a developer, it's not eye candy. I don't care much about the "look" of the interface. What's important to me is consistent shortcut, nice font antialiasing to read faster, drag&drop... It makes my work faster. There are "tons" of feature unique to MacOS, for example, you have ANY document open (word, pages, pdf, ANYTHING), you can click the title bar to locate the document in the finder (file browser). This is the kind of features I can't work without. I speak for the desktop here, for me, Solaris is the best server system out there, period. But for the desktop, I need something productive. MacOS is the only OS that gives me that productivity. I'd be happier with zfs and a good packaging system, I also loath the Mac approach to dynamic libraries and other things. But I said that from the Mac point of view, not from the Solaris point of view. I know a lot of things have much higher priorities on the Solaris side. -- Nicolas Goy Crazy Programmer and Optimization Bear http://goyman.com http://kuon.goyman.com
