Re: I Hate Solomon IV

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From: Earle Martin
Subject: Re: I Hate Solomon IV
Date: 10:57 on 03 Sep 2003
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:33:28PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> I have never seen a program that did as bad a job of following the
> Windows GUI guidelines (which are, at least in principle, pretty
> good) as this one.

Don't get me started. Here's a nice example of Windows applications in
action:
http://www.jshift.com/services/design/horrors/taskbar_abuse.asp

> First, the program is in two separate windows, One of these windows               
> is nothing but a launcher for the other components, but all the                   
> menus are in this window. The other window has no menu, no toolbar,               
> and if you close the first window it generally crashes. 

Nice. And I love the way they don't bother to line up any of the text entry
fields (or is that only the Mexican version?):

http://www.mx.solomon.com/images/other/control4.gif


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