GitHub for Windows

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 10:54:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message
> news:jpfiha$53t$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 2012-05-21 21:56, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Nick Sabalausky"<SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com>  wrote 
>>> in message
>>> news:jpe4ru$13e8$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> "David Nadlinger"<see at klickverbot.at>  wrote in message
>>>> news:lvpmnrfdyinxvkzuswlb at forum.dlang.org...
>>>>> GitHub have just released their Windows GUI for Git/GitHub:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://windows.github.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> Although I'm not sure if it really stands up to the promise 
>>>>> of being »the
>>>>> easiest way to use Git on Windows«, it might be 
>>>>> interesting to some of
>>>>> you who prefer to rather not be bothered with the inner 
>>>>> workings of Git.
>>>>>
>>>>> The release announcement is at:
>>>>> https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Finally!
>>>>
>>>> I still don't understand what posessd them to do a Mac 
>>>> version first.
>>>> Nobody uses Mac.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Jesus, it's almost as bad as their web interface. I don't 
>>> know how the hell
>>> they managed that, I'd think you have to *try* to make a 
>>> desktop app that
>>> bad.
>>>
>>> Upon initial startup: "An unhandled win32 exception occurred 
>>> in GitHub.exe".
>>> Great.
>>>
>>> Then it runs anyway? But there's *no* titlebar whatsoever. 
>>> And everything
>>> else about it is the most poorly-implemented custom-UI I've 
>>> ever come
>>> across. Gratuitus amounts of wasted space. Controls that 
>>> behave...wrong and
>>> don't even look *at all* like what they're supposed to be 
>>> (*that* is
>>> supposed to be a scroll-bar?). Constant...shit...popping up 
>>> every time you
>>> touch the mouse. And as far as looks, I'd say it's the 
>>> ugliest program I've
>>> used since Chrome, but honesty - it's really is uglier than 
>>> even that. They
>>> actually managed to make things like Steam and modern *Adobe* 
>>> UIs seem
>>> decent! I didn't think that was even *possible* without VB3.
>>
>> Isn't that the new GUI for Windows 8 :
>>
>
> I wasn't running it on Win8. It was on XP.
>
> I guess it's kinda like Chrome: Hey Google, imitate the native 
> UI all you
> want, but the fakeness is pretty damn obvious when Aero 
> suddenly shows up on
> an XP machine.
>
>> http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-release-preview-rip-aero-20032012-143133
>>
>
> Oh, so it's that time of the week again already? Time for MS to 
> change their
> minds once again on which is cool and uncool: straight vs 
> curved?
>
> Egads, it's like they're spinning their wheels just for the 
> sake of spinning
> them. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The computer 
> industry has
> become the goddamn fasion industry.
>
> Win3: Rounded edges! Couldn't have those before!
>
> 95: Rounded is so old. Stright-edged (*cough* like Win1&2 
> *cough*) is
> classy!
>
> XP: Straight edges and flat colors are sooo old-fasioned! 
> Roundess, curves
> and gradients are in! ("Yea, whatever...Luna: Off, Classic: On")
>
> Vista: Transperency is hip and modern! More curves! More 
> shading!
>
> Win8: Transparency, curves, gradients and shading are sooo 
> old-fasioned!
> Stright edges and flat colors are in!
>
> FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!
>
> It's all change just for the sake of fucking change. Why most 
> of the world
> seems to be so chronically blind to it is beyond me.
>
> And then there's MS's "between-OS" styles-of-the-week, like in 
> the late 90's
> when MS decided all their non-OS releases for one year should 
> use black menu
> bars instead of system-default.
>
> Make up your fucking mind, MS.

It's called Marketing and Sales department.

Every company that sells commercial products needs to keep adding 
the "next big thing" to their product as a means to sell the 
product to existing users.

Let's take Office as an example, for my usual tasks, I could 
happily still use Word 6 from the Windows 3.11 days.

--
Paulo