Qion
Uber Nothing
All this marketing with Cover Flow... I believe that the major integration of it with every new product Apple releases, including Leopard, is ridiculous. I think it's a great idea to finger through a line of album art with a touchscreen, but with anything else, it's a pure and simple exacerbation of overboard Open GL effects. The new fatties and even the new classics don't handle it too smoothly, anyway... according to Major Burns, it's devoid of anti-aliasing and is slow in loading random album art. Also, am I the only audiophile that has a rather extensive classical collection of music that doesn't have album art? It's ugly to watch the default blank Cover Flow spaces flash by, especially when some of your favorite tracks are ones without pictures.
The idea that the file organizer in my next operating system will be based around Cover Flow is sickening. I said once that it's not bad for browsing, but as far as actual work goes, it's childish. If I'm to work in a three-dimensional file enviroment, give me some options! What's the point of floating icons in a line? Don't I already have that in list view? In fact, right now, I have my camera export file set to 128 x 128 JPEG previews. I can see as many rows as can fill my screen, and I can visually navigate through a thousand pictures and documents more rapidly than viewing them in a single line. If Apple would like to seriously satisfy the professional as well as the consumer market, they should take example from the lovely Aperture application they created... I don't see any single lines in there!
I've decided that I'm belatedly rather unhappy with the next generation Finder, as well as some of the new iPod GUI. Apple could really shift paradigms with the animation technology in Leopard, and it almost seems as if they're choosing not to.
The idea that the file organizer in my next operating system will be based around Cover Flow is sickening. I said once that it's not bad for browsing, but as far as actual work goes, it's childish. If I'm to work in a three-dimensional file enviroment, give me some options! What's the point of floating icons in a line? Don't I already have that in list view? In fact, right now, I have my camera export file set to 128 x 128 JPEG previews. I can see as many rows as can fill my screen, and I can visually navigate through a thousand pictures and documents more rapidly than viewing them in a single line. If Apple would like to seriously satisfy the professional as well as the consumer market, they should take example from the lovely Aperture application they created... I don't see any single lines in there!
I've decided that I'm belatedly rather unhappy with the next generation Finder, as well as some of the new iPod GUI. Apple could really shift paradigms with the animation technology in Leopard, and it almost seems as if they're choosing not to.