RE: Questions

[Stephen Yates <sjy999 totalise co uk>]

>===== Original Message From Eric Lemings <eric b lemings lmco com> =====

>Second, I have only seen the Quicktime demos of the new MacOS X user
>interface called Aqua and, given Apple's expertise in user interface
>design, I was wondering if GNOME designers have thought about using it
>as a model?  (A model is not the same as a clone.)  Or does Apple have
>have patents/trademarks/etc. that restrict use of these new user
>interface techniques on the GNOME platform?

There are some good features in the OS X GUI, and personally I think that the 
NeXTSTEP style file manager is very nice (although it would be much nicer with 
a shelf IMO).  But there are also a lot of problems with the GUI, in a lot of 
ways it's less elegant and refined than Mac OS 8/9 IMO.  Also the pointless 
eye candy annoys a lot of people, it looks cool at first but soon it just 
slows the user down.

It's hard to see how Apple could restrict the use of the features in the OS X 
GUI when most of them aren't really new.  I can't think of anything much in it 
that's unique to Mac OS X, apart from the eye candy many features were in 
NeXTSTEP and other OSes years ago.  Actually I found the lack of radical new 
ideas very disappointing.

Have a look at the OS X review on ArsTechnica.com, it covered most of the good 
features and the bad design in the OS X GUI.


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