Comments on: I’m sure glad I’m not on the Omni User Interface team

By: care

care — Mon, 22 May 2006 01:15:15 +0000

Thanks for the information, it was very helpful.

By: Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:49:56 +0000

I didn’t take your tone as nasty Marc, but I was mollified once Omnigroup added a hidden preference to get rid of the stripes!

By: marc nothrop

marc nothrop — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:40:50 +0000

Hey, sorry Jon, perhaps you’ve mistaken my tone? The reaction seemed knee-jerk’ to me as the disquiet was mollified once explanations were given; there were things that the people who expressed dislike (or whatever you want to call it) hadn’t thought about.

…and anyway, it’s inherently a pretty ’soft’ issue, I thought there was little tone of irreverence around here?!

By: Forrest

Forrest — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:52:05 +0000

I sit in front of three monitors. Some apps get their own permanent space. When something occurs in one of them, I use my peripheral vision to see it, and then direct my attention to it.

At first I was able to focus on the content of the windows, but when I have three OW windows open side-by-side and other things going on, just the window coming to the foreground with those stripes was distracting.

Many people here have honed their skills to do a job very well. For some that may be design. In that case, they have more awareness as to how an interface affects the user.

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:20:43 +0000

That striped bar bothered me so much I hurled all over my keyboard! Talk about disturbing!

But not really. I only hurl on history books. Just make sure that it’s removed by the final version of OW 5.5. However, I didn’t seem to notice much in the way of new features…I guess it seemed a little snappier, but when you have a 6-year old computer and trying to load up WAY too many pages at the same time, it might always seem somewhat slow.

My favorite difference in American vs. British/Australian sayings is the word “process”. Americans say the O with an AH sound, where others will use the long O sound…which makes sense since I say procedure with a long O. So, go figure!

Oh, and my department head (who was British) seemed to add an extra R at the end of the word “idea”.

That’s a good idear….

By: Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:50:37 +0000

Is a few people not liking the stripes really a controversy?

And no Marc, its not a knee-jerk reaction.

By: Kilian

Kilian — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:40:01 +0000

That “con-TRAHV-er-sy” controversy comes probably from Adam Curry (http://www.dailysourcecode.com/) trying to pronounce it in a British way, because you know “he’s so European and all”, and failing at it completely now making everyone in the US believe it’s pronounced “con-TRAHV-er-sy”, whereas it is not.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:41:07 +0000

And we Brits don’t say “con-TRAHV-er-sy”; we say “con-TROHV-er-sy”!

By: Chucky

Chucky — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:52:23 +0000

Jackie Brown rocks.

By: marc nothrop

marc nothrop — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 02:15:03 +0000

I think it was all just a bit of a storm in a teacup, a knee-jerk reaction — after the valid reasons for the stripes were explained I think there’s little ground for complaint… and I’m very picky and histrionic about interfaces!