GitHub for Windows

[Jacob Carlborg]

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 :

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-release-preview-rip-aero-20032012-143133

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg