I would put as number one the new and still-in-beta "Tower" git client for Mac: http://www.git-tower.com/
Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces
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Re: Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
And in a better spot. I'm not that thrilled about Reeder for Mac even though I love it on my iPhone and iPad, and a lot of it is due to the awkward position of the share button and such. The UI is really good looking but not usable enough.
That’s what I didn’t understand. NetNewWire has buttons on the exact same position ( http://netnewswireapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mac_scr... – please note that NetNewsWire doesn’t even show an Unread or Flag button by default), why then is Reeder’s placement especially bad? It’s also not like the edges of the App help you a lot. Mac apps are at least by default not fullscreen, putting buttons in the corners d…
It seems that this is why the next OS X will feature special full-screen application UI, to take advantage of things like Fitt's law, instead of encouraging people to maximize windows.
Re: Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces
#43The performance of some of these apps is appalling. The Sparrow GMail client idles in the background on my MacBook Air around 20 or 30% CPU usage on one core. If you try to scroll the list of mail, resize the window, or breathe on it wrong, it will chug, the graphics will stutter, and it will peg itself at 100% cpu for several seconds. If I have it running, it cuts my estimated remaining battery life from 4 hours to…
Get your downvoting fingers ready... ;-) AL-motherf###ing-PINE I swear, I've tried to get in to gui mail apps. I even got pretty far once with gmail's offline mode. I've tried so damn hard , but I can't stay away from alpine. It's so fast, so small, I never have to look for anything. All the commands are staring me in the face at all times. You cannot ask for a better UI. [p.s. how do you emit literal asterisks here,…
I swear, I've tried to get into console mail apps. But I've yet to find one designed for the post-1975 era. Hint: I have a bunch of accounts, all using IMAP, and I don't run an SMTP server locally.
Mutt, Pine, sup, and everybody else: I'm looking at you.
Re: Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces
#44I'll probably get downvoted for this, but it looks like the UI for these Mac apps is wildly inconsistent and each app has a very idiosyncratic idea of how it should look, which many times doesn't seem to take usability into account. I don't think it looks prettier, but to me most modern GTK apps on Ubuntu seem much more consistent and strict as far as respecting the platform UI guidelines.
> "it looks like the UI for these Mac apps is wildly inconsistent and each app has a very idiosyncratic idea of how it should look"
Have you used an iDevice recently? Their apps are designed around the fact that they can have the entire screen to themselves, and this sort of reasoning is bleeding out into computer application development. Some of the designs there could well be iPad apps, if it weren't for the window borders.
It's strange that when I used OS X, I was told that the proper way to do things was to use floating windows instead of having everything maximised, and now Lion is encouraging full-screen interfaces.
Re: Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
And in a better spot. I'm not that thrilled about Reeder for Mac even though I love it on my iPhone and iPad, and a lot of it is due to the awkward position of the share button and such. The UI is really good looking but not usable enough.
That’s what I didn’t understand. NetNewWire has buttons on the exact same position ( http://netnewswireapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mac_scr... – please note that NetNewsWire doesn’t even show an Unread or Flag button by default), why then is Reeder’s placement especially bad? It’s also not like the edges of the App help you a lot. Mac apps are at least by default not fullscreen, putting buttons in the corners d…
> That’s what I didn’t understand. NetNewWire has buttons on the exact same position (http://netnewswireapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mac_scr.... – please note that NetNewsWire doesn’t even show an Unread or Flag button by default), why then is Reeder’s placement especially bad?
NetNewsWire has the window titlebar above the toolbar. Reeder has those two combined in one bar (so there is less vertical space).
Re: Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s what I didn’t understand. NetNewWire has buttons on the exact same position ( http://netnewswireapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mac_scr... – please note that NetNewsWire doesn’t even show an Unread or Flag button by default), why then is Reeder’s placement especially bad? It’s also not like the edges of the App help you a lot. Mac apps are at least by default not fullscreen, putting buttons in the corners d…
> That’s what I didn’t understand. NetNewWire has buttons on the exact same position ( http://netnewswireapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/mac_scr... . – please note that NetNewsWire doesn’t even show an Unread or Flag button by default), why then is Reeder’s placement especially bad? NetNewsWire has the window titlebar above the toolbar. Reeder has those two combined in one bar (so there is less vertical space).
Yes, I read that, too. Seems like a dicy hypothesis to me. I would like to see some user testing.
Re: Mac Apps With Beautiful Interfaces
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get your downvoting fingers ready... ;-) AL-motherf###ing-PINE I swear, I've tried to get in to gui mail apps. I even got pretty far once with gmail's offline mode. I've tried so damn hard , but I can't stay away from alpine. It's so fast, so small, I never have to look for anything. All the commands are staring me in the face at all times. You cannot ask for a better UI. [p.s. how do you emit literal asterisks here,…
I swear, I've tried to get into console mail apps. But I've yet to find one designed for the post-1975 era. Hint: I have a bunch of accounts, all using IMAP, and I don't run an SMTP server locally. Mutt, Pine, sup, and everybody else: I'm looking at you.
You can use alpine and mutt just fine with remote imap and smtp, including gmail. It's not hard.
Apart from "they look old" (which is a fake argument), what about console mail clients makes them feel as though they aren't designed for the modern era? Sure, they don't look like other mail clients, but that's as much other clients' fault as theirs. What exactly about their UI, intrinsically, do you dislike? Or do you just love the mouse too much to give it up?