10 Things I hate about Leopard

1. Dark grey everywhere.  It's such a dull looking experience

2. Small icons in the finder sidebar, now i have to hunt and peck with the mouse

3. Everything looks like iTunes. 

4. The icons,  now I have to hunt and peck for the movies, documents, you know it, you're doing it too

5. The transparent menu's, just horrible. I have a slight sight disability, and its messing with my head

6. The transparent menu bar at the top, now i have to put white on all my backgrounds

7. Capital letters in the sidebars. so 'Germanic'

8. Stacks, simply awful. and hard to find what you are looking for. I liked the old menu's

9. The sheets shadows, they seem to look completely wrong.

10. The dock of course. more confusing again for anyone with sight impairments

News news news - old news

Is it me, or is the BBC news site turning into some sort of posh version of Heat magazine



All the important stuff seems to be spun or written about so badly it seems like a soap





I think I'm becoming such a cynic these days

Drawer UI - HID guidelines & Single Window Paradigms

So, I put a drawer into the app, its only relevant to two of the tabs on the main window. So does that mean its a bad design. I read some stuff that said that the drawer should be used as a parent interface, not something that shows data for a particular item, and this sort of makes sense, except that if you do this and the drawer is hidden, then it wouldnt be clear how to set the main context.



To me, I actually dont normally like the drawers, but I cant quite see where to put this information without a redesign and even then it still isnt something I'd like to put on the main form. hmmm



I'm told that the new ical dispenses with the drawer metaphor, and this makes sense. iCal is annoying in that, to me, the info in the drawer seems pretty important and not something that should be an afterthought.


So here it is, a drawer that shows stats on the item selected in the main window. It hides itself if you select the first info tab and (re)-reveals itself for the other tabs.



Actually I only put it in because I was interested for a moment on how you made them, but now it seems useful.

Stuck underground

So, I'm late home, I've drunk too much. ( long story, but I had to cancel my dental appointment because of this ). and someone pulls the ( virtual ) security cable in the train.



An announcement to explain. oh and 'open all the vents', its gonna get hot.



Oddly, everyone relaxes, drops the attitude and suddenly the tube is a nice place to be.

WEIRD!