rcoops Wrote:Though I fully agree with the idea of thinking outside the box there is a minor problem with your idea that scrolling trough a large list of data is not the way to go. There is little other one can do isn't there? Unless you suggest using speech to lookup the information you will end up moving from A to B to Z by scrolling down and up or left and right if you want to look at a large number of items.
The idea of a desktop where you drop all the data on won't work as you will have an enormous pile of data on a always to small desktop. Scrolling is the only way to deal with this.

Though I agree that the current views are well not the greatest they are just rows of images that move from left to right without much else added, we should not forget that this is still in a development stage and things might change a lot before a release to the public is even though of.

The video looks interesting but so far I don't get the same kind of: "When will it finally be released" feeling as I do with some of the other skins currently in development.

MarkTaunton Wrote:Ok maybe I am a nasty English man but if you want more honest comments then here goes.

Now if I had not seen all of this before then I would think WoW, as it does look pretty good, and full credit to you.

Sad to say that once you have seen one slanted wall view, you have seen them all, mock ups can look so fantastic and you want to try them straight away, but having the same old skin, e.g confluence or back row rehashed will just become a bore.

Team Blackbolt took a year to design and program Xperience and it looks fresh, colorful and stylish, Shade and Welo are looking more polished and ready for example a TV station to broadcast.

You have done an excellent job in your mock ups, but sadly not raised the bar apart from the TV view for the new 10.5.

circle_ Wrote:I'm not sure if you're aware, but this mockup is over a year old. Most of the recent mockups and builds around now are taking ideas from this mockup. When it was first released there really wasn't anything like it.

On a personal note I find this mockup far more polished than Shade. Shade has too many small design inconsistencies in terms of spacing etc, too many tacky details for my liking such as showing the discs out the top of the cases and the terrible white tubs for folders. Not to mention what is in my opinion a major design flaw; having the huge menu across the top 3rd of the screen while allowing fanart backgrounds. Having said that for the most part I like Shade a lot and I will be using it when its released.
I think Phyek's mockup is too different to compare on whole with Welo.

Note: I edited out some paragraphs of the quote not relevant to my comments.

igotdvds Wrote:Those tacky discs can be turned off. Also, I am not a graphics guy and I had to make folders that I thought worked. The top menu was inspired by boxee, I think its different and unique. Just my opinion.

circle_ Wrote:My post was just my opinion too. I didn't say it wasn't different or unique. I just think the top menu is intrusive on the backgrounds especially if its covering the faces of a cast or stars. Wasn't a personal attack just my thoughts on the skin.