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While I'm probably one of the first to experiment with new, innovative computer interfaces, I closed Raskin after about 60 seconds of trying to use it. For sta
by timerickson 15y ago
While I'm probably one of the first to experiment with new, innovative computer interfaces, I closed Raskin after about 60 seconds of trying to use it.
For starters, I couldn't get it to actually pinch zoom, making it near impossible to read any file names. The scrolling itself was so fast that I found myself flying around the screen without any ability to recognize where I was or where I wanted to go. Images had a consistent and ugly black border. Files seemed to be resized and ranked without any plausible order. Loading was slow, slow, slow. There were no keyboard shortcuts to allow me to quickly flip through a row of images. The viewpoint would not stick to a column or series of images, causing me to easily lose my place. The font rendering was horrid.
I could go on...
- farnsworth 15y agoI know a lot of people might read this first and skip it, like I almost did, so I want to mention that it actually worked pretty well for me. There are some shortcuts but nothing to move around to next row, next file, next column, etc. I plan to leave it running on a Space anyway and see if it turns out useful. I think that the larger the monitor, the bigger improvement over Finder. It would be fantastic for a touchscreen.
- dools 15y agoYep, worked as advertised for me. It was a little slow but I think that's because it was still analysing my drive. I personally have no use for it but it certainly worked well enough.