RapidWeaver 4 Quibbles
While the publishing feature works a little more nicely than its predecessor, I’m wondering if the GUI improvements are improvements at all. In many ways, the “Delicious Generation” moniker that was intended to be a pejorative is actually brought to life with unnecessary animated fluff.
Example: Ripping out a page of the “less is more” UI design book, some genius at RealMac decided that an coverflow style animation would make a great progress bar. Wrong. As a habitual Command-S presser, I get to see the wonderfully annoying animation every 3-5 minutes when working with the app.
Still missing from the app are automagically generated permalink titles. Come on guys, I’d have rather you spent the 3 hours developing that lame progress bar on using a simple regular expression to autopopulate the permalink field so that I wouldn’t have a giant hexadecimal hash as my permalink instead.
Some other annoyances: Positioning and default icons on the toolbar and the bizarre positioning of the Title/Category pane on the right side of the application window (wtf!?).
I would have preferred to see the functional improvements of 4 in the 3.x interface. But that’s just me talking. I can definitely see why 4.0 is not a paid upgrade over 3.6.
Example: Ripping out a page of the “less is more” UI design book, some genius at RealMac decided that an coverflow style animation would make a great progress bar. Wrong. As a habitual Command-S presser, I get to see the wonderfully annoying animation every 3-5 minutes when working with the app.
Still missing from the app are automagically generated permalink titles. Come on guys, I’d have rather you spent the 3 hours developing that lame progress bar on using a simple regular expression to autopopulate the permalink field so that I wouldn’t have a giant hexadecimal hash as my permalink instead.
Some other annoyances: Positioning and default icons on the toolbar and the bizarre positioning of the Title/Category pane on the right side of the application window (wtf!?).
I would have preferred to see the functional improvements of 4 in the 3.x interface. But that’s just me talking. I can definitely see why 4.0 is not a paid upgrade over 3.6.
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