Existing users, 
iBabel is a nice GUI for OpenBabel with nice features. Having the user to compile OpenBabel himself makes installation more complicated than it needs to be, but okay - it's not really a problem.
But please, guys, do not mess around with MacOS X's folder structure!!! It is unnecessary, annoying and extremely bad style that iBabel needs to create it's own little "Public" folder on the hard disk's root level.
Every installation of MacOS X has enough folders that would do the job. So, unless iBabel learns to use the appropiate folders like "Application support" or "/var/tmp" for temporary files and learns to clean up after itself, I'm refraining of giving iBabel any review.
iBabel
Molecular structure viewer with structure based searching.
Version: 2.6
Nice, but...
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: Janich-san Friday, March 03 2006 @ 07:14 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Nice, but... - macinchem
Latest version (2.1.1) allows the user to select the "Public" folder to store structures and place alternative Java applets.Monday, July 24 2006 @ 02:23 PM PDT
Nice, but... - macinchem
Hi,I agree about the folder structure but that was a request from the first users. Also since some of the java viewers need to be downloaded by the user security constraints mean that they need to able able to add the .jar file to the same folder hierarchy as the individual structure files.
The next version will be uploaded June 1st 2006 and will include Spotlight searching for chemical content on your hard drive.
The subsequent version (which I'm working on now) will include a user option regarding the site of the structure files.
All comments/suggestions are very welcome.
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Wednesday, May 31 2006 @ 12:01 AM PDT