Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 28th Jan 2007 09:11 UTC, submitted by Zenja
The Yarra engine was designed to be a cross platform C++ gaming engine, using OpenGL for 3D graphics and OpenAL for positional sound. Unlike existing engines, Yarra was primarily designed to allow dynamic adding of programmable objects to a scene graph with handlers to control game flow. This design doesn't suite a majority of software out there, but works great for games. But the article isn't about Yarra, it's about the developers personal experiences working with Windows, MacOSX and BeOS. The article discusses the pro's and con's of each environment, and give sa very subjective opinion about the merits of each.
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2006-02-28
It won't be easy to answer you with concrete example and avoid being accused of trolling. I honestly think that most people has a reason to dislike the Finder, but i really doubt that everybody agrees on issues.
First of all, the finder is the key app of the mac. It the way you access to your apps and documents. The only way, until you put it in the dock or use spotlight/quicksilver tools. Yep, you access Terminal.app by the finder and no ctrl-alt-F1 for your sake. It's the source of everything.
So as you can imagine, every issues that lead to crash/hang/infinite reload of the Finder is "you-cannot-imagine-how" painfull. And there is issues. Not a lot, surely, but it's always too much.
I reported one here, once : (at the end of the post, about spotlight and finder integration) http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=15145&comment_id=141857
Things you can see is (or was) :
- infinite loop on empty .swf file (fixed after a quicktime update, long mounths after the bug was reported to apple)
- Canceling the move/deletion of a lot of files totally unreponsive (due to the lock flag modification on each file, but that should be reported to user)
- Finder tries to preview a 500MB tiff file, sometimes slowing down the computer so much that you hardly can selecting something else to stop it.
- The standard way to go in upper hierarchy of directories is to cmd-click on window icon. (this will be discussed if i leave it as is : generally you cannot go anywhere without being able to go to parent directory in more than one click - generally)
- the .DS_Store files it leaves every where, even if you don't touch the window ( http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=DS_STORE )
- Mounts and umount removable (network and USB, firewire is quite nice) filesystems soooooo slowly (i didn't try on command line, this may be an OS issue, but recent sshfs of fuse make me doubt, it was quite fast)
- The incompatible of old and new way of attaching documents to applications. Signatures and so where perfect before the internet (one document edited by the same app, ever) but not theses days.
- ...
I'll stop here before making to much people upset. If a mac fan is over there, these are the things i noticed, if you've got workarounds, i would pretty happy to know them, and pardon me for my ignorance