[X4U] Let's start the FUD presses.

[James S Jones]

Thurrot must have some sort of cognitive disfunction. He so 
consistently says things like "Contrary to Apple's hyperbolic claims of 
"200 new features," Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger includes, in my opinion, only 
two major new features, Spotlight and Dashboard...", that must be 
oblivious to the faulty comparison.

He fails to make his point about inconsistent UI. All he really says is 
that Mail 2 doesn't look like it used to or like the Finder or the 
"brushed metal" apps. So? Neither did 1.0 or 1.3.9. And, neither does 
Entourage. Or InDesign. Or Firefox. That's OK, because they aren't part 
of the OS, they're applications. There's nothing to the look that's 
confusing to a new or experienced user. Except...

If you look at the bottom right corner of the new mail folder list, 
there's some sort of control that looks like 3 vertical lines. Do you 
drag that to resize the list bar or do you click it to open and close 
the bar?

As for my naive opinion of the bar, I detest the Outlook interface, so 
I'm not excited to see anything like it creep into an Apple app. I like 
the drawer because I can position it on the right, where my mouse most 
often is when reading mail (for scrolling, etc).

On Apr 15, 2005, at 12:52 PM, DZ-Jay wrote:

> I haven't seen Tiger yet (only the promotional screenshots), and my OS 
> X experience is limited to the few weeks I've been using Panther (I'm 
> a recent Windows convert), so I would like to know the opinion of 
> other Mac users from this list regarding those points from Thurrot's 
> article concerning the UI changes to, for instance, Mail.app.
>
> P.S. I personally like the mailbox "drawer" feature of Mail.app and 
> iCal, but that's just me :)