This has a lot of potential. I'm going to try it out, and if it is as ruff as timerickson said, I might have to come back to it once they sand it down.
Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
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#12I was surprised to find this has nothing to do with Aza Raskin
I'm not very comfortable with the idea of them using Jef Raskin's name in that way. Perhaps it's a well-meaning tribute from their point-of-view but from mine it seems like a sleazy attempt to capitalize on someone else's reputation.
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#13While 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 c…
I know a lot of people might read this first and skip it, like I almost did, so I want to mention that it actually worked pretty well for me. There are some shortcuts but nothing to move around to next row, next file, next column, etc. I plan to leave it running on a Space anyway and see if it turns out useful. I think that the larger the monitor, the bigger improvement over Finder. It would be fantastic for a touchscreen.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually 135px if we're nit picking.
Ha! Must be a browser thing; I actually measured it with xScope.
It depends on the width of your window. This is a quite common bug that only shows up when the browser window is too narrow. Since their website is incredibly wide (it doesn’t even fit on my 1440px wide screen) it probably shows up for quite a lot of users.
My browser window is usually 700px or so wide which is why I encounter that particular bug all the time – especially on otherwise quite nicely designed websites. It absolutely breaks the website and sometimes makes it unreadable (try resizing the window and see what happens), forcing me to resize my browser window. Why don’t web designers like people like me who like to see more than one browser window at a time?
Re: Raskin zoomable desktop manager for Mac OS X
#15While 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 c…
Yep, worked as advertised for me. It was a little slow but I think that's because it was still analysing my drive.
I personally have no use for it but it certainly worked well enough.
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#16The interaction modes look very shiny but in the same way "Minority Report" looks shiny. As to the name, I'll wait until Aza chimes in one way or the other but prima facie it feels pretty weird.
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#17Sadly in 2011 most of the objects I deal with aren't files.
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#18I tried to love it. I couldn't do it though.
The previews of files are great if you work with images. Not so great for source code though.
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#19I was surprised to find this has nothing to do with Aza Raskin
You realize that Aza Raskin is to Jef Raskin as George W Bush is to George HW Bush, right?
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#20Earlier 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.
Jef presented the idea of a zoomable interface in his book "The Humane Interface" and a zoomable interface was a part of THE/Archy.