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Haxial TextEdit

Haxial TextEdit

Unicode plain text file editor

Version:  1.700

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UI is important, really

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Argy1 Friday, May 07 2004 @ 03:08 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

The app works fine but I have uninstalled it. At the risk of being ignored as a Mac bigot, I use OS X because there is a protocol for the GUi and designers of associated apps seem to adhere to that protocol. As a Mac OS X user, every new app I launch has a theme I recognise immediately, I understand which menus to look at in the ubiquitous menu bar in order to find my way around. I feel comfortable with what Apple designers have "forced" me to use, and I am afraid I dont feel comfortable with an interface that takes me straight back to Windows, where quite frankly, GUI designers just dont seem to quite get it.

The developer should take a look at this site http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ and get a feeling for how many thousands of developers have willingly adopted the Mac OS X way of displaying things.

If you want to say unconventional things in Mac land, maybe wear conventional clothes first!   
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