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Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X

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Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X

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Post by timerickson »

While I'm probably one of the first to experiment with new, innovative computer interfaces, I closed Raskin after about 60 seconds of trying to use it.

For starters, I couldn't get it to actually pinch zoom, making it near impossible to read any file names. The scrolling itself was so fast that I found myself flying around the screen without any ability to recognize where I was or where I wanted to go. Images had a consistent and ugly black border. Files seemed to be resized and ranked without any plausible order. Loading was slow, slow, slow. There were no keyboard shortcuts to allow me to quickly flip through a row of images. The viewpoint would not stick to a column or series of images, causing me to easily lose my place. The font rendering was horrid.

I could go on...

Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X

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Post by jgmmo »

abrowne wrote: post #3
jgmmo wrote: post #2

I was surprised to find this has nothing to do with Aza Raskin

It was "Inspired by Macintosh visionary, Jef Raskin"[1], who was Aza's father. [1]: http://raskinformac.com/#features

Yeah... I got that far, but it still has nothing to do either of them.

Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X

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Post by abrowne »

jgmmo wrote: post #5
abrowne wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was "Inspired by Macintosh visionary, Jef Raskin"[1], who was Aza's father. [1]: http://raskinformac.com/#features

Yeah... I got that far, but it still has nothing to do either of them.

Now that I've looked at it, I think I'm glad neither are involved.
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