> 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.
What kind of software are you developing then? Have an OS X laptop here (PPC Leopard), but I avoid it like the plague precisely because of OS X. I'm used to working in LOM (lights out environments), xterm and vi, and to me OS X just feels incredibly *clunky* to use. Looks real nice, but with all the shortcuts, and clicky-clicky in OS X, I'm just 10x faster in xterm and vi. Even browsing the web using Safari is painful, for example, for the longest time, Safari didn't even have a "Print" icon, and no way to make one appear either (I wasn't a fan of that symbol-P combo, either, because it's a weird non-standard key). The problem with GUIs is inherent to architectural cleanliness of the design: separation of engine (the CLI workhorse program) and the GUI. That's good, clean architecture. But it also means that a GUI always lag behind the tool itself, and will never be as powerful as the underlying program which it is attempting to drive. _________________________________________________________________ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/events.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-chosug/attachments/20090813/a16fe9fe/attachment.html>
