Comments on: Not All is Well in Mac-Land

By: Mail's Ugly Icons | NSLog();

Mail's Ugly Icons | NSLog(); — Sat, 21 May 2005 11:37:46 +0000

I set my parents up last night with Mail on their new Mac. Previously, they'd been using a shared Entourage database between users. It worked well, except that sometimes my dad would delete or mark mail as read when there...

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:07:49 +0000

I quite like it - however these are some screenshots I came across a few months ago...

http://images.appleinsider.com/images/tigermailshot1.gif

http://images.appleinsider.com/images/tigermailshot2.gif

By: drunkenblog

drunkenblog — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:00:11 +0000

Agreed, and I'm glad you called them on it. Too much of what I'm seeing in Tiger feels wasteful and bloated, ugly, and just generally makes me want to not use it. I honestly don't understand how some of this stuff is shipping, it's like Care Bears on acid drops and then stomped on. Between this crap, and what I've seen of dashboard... I'm starting to hope they don't ship, just to retool all of this. It's like we're watching a GUI fall apart overnight.

By: John Devor

John Devor — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:42:47 +0000

I AGREE! OH MY GOD! EVERYONE SEND BUG REPORTS NOW!

By: Zachery Bir

Zachery Bir — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:31:48 +0000

Who uses toolbar buttons? Takes me away from the keyboard.

By: Bud Landry

Bud Landry — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:30:34 +0000

You know, I don't mind my least favorite mail program looking different from any other apps. I like brushed metal for simlar reasons - I can differentiate the apps window even behind other windows (even if expose makes that moot these days). I think "all windows should look the same" a bit of a fools argument, so feh to those that would prefer garageband and safari and iTunes have platinum aqua windows just like every other plain jane app around.

Maybe smart folders would fit in that extra toolbar space

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:26:57 +0000

meh. i'll see how disgusting it is once i use it.

i'm sure it'll be painful enough then.

wonder how gruber will feel about apple further abandoning their own HIG.

By: Steve Streza

Steve Streza — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 03:46:01 +0000

Wow. Way to totally not fit into Aqua.

By: Mat

Mat — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:45:03 +0000

I totally agree with you Erik, it is horrid. Hopefully they change them back to how they were in 323A, it was definitely much nicer.

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:51:16 +0000

It's terrible, and I doubt they'll change it. I remember hoping the horizontal menu for labels in the Panther Finder preview would be changed, and it stayed.

I really liked the look of the previous Tiger Mail, especially with the "bookmark bar" shortcuts. This one is hideous.