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e-gandalf

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Tuesday, March 28th 2006, 2:53am

Vista goodies

I'm testing Windows Vista 5308 build and I like a few ideas which I was talking about long ago, and that are present in Vista (probably copied from MacOSX).

First, most "items" on screen appears in some kind of a visual process, not "suddenly". When I'm logging in, the screen fades out, and fades in with my desktop, windows appears in animation, and disappears in fade our process. It's always some kind of a visual behaviour that "explains" to my brain what happens with the item. I like it.

Windows menu has some kind of icon that is a symbol of actually hovered element, the icon is half over the kmenu box, and half above it. When I'm hovering an element the icon changes by fading out one icon and fading in another. Not by simple replace.

Beside of this, Vista is very slow on my Athlon XP2 4800+ with GeForce 7800 GP and 2 GB RAM. It's extremly slow! It seems that the reason is bad graphic card driver, but the user experience is very bad.
Also, the icons are bad, skin is bad, some parts of the UI reminds me some early KDE3 with a lot of bloated clickable widgets around the UI. It's hard to navigate through File Explorer and overal experience is not good.