On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 00:10:17 +0200, Carl-Johan Kihlbom extra@newcode.se wrote:
I don't agree, but I see where you're coming from. I think I'll just have to start a Preferences for TextMate petition :-D Who's with me?!
Me and Apple Computer, Inc., for starters.
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 01:35:01 +0200, Sune Foldager cryo@diku.dk wrote:
Yes, it annoyed me. It doesn't take much to knock a user off his stride.
I'm sorry to hear that.
I'm discouraged by this thread, I hope TextMate won't be another product whose developers think they know better than Apple's UI team AND negatively-surprised users.
Like, say, BBEdit.
:-(
Please, guys, don't make us argue the carefully-considered conventions of Mac software to you; we're potential customers who need software that fits us. You've created something that fits your needs and aesthetics, which is a great start. Now adapt it to suit your target audience (all of whom are Mac users, by the by) without ruining it for yourselves, and the world will have another piece of great software instead of another mediocre wanna-be.
If you don't understand folks' objections to abandoning conventions from the Apple HIG, please explain why your way is an *improvement* -- right now all we know is that it's different, and that's apparently not enough for some of us who understand the separation of document state and application state that the Preferences window makes explicit. What problem does this deviance from user expectations solve?
Thanks for your great work so far.