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You can deduce two things out of this post : - First, chrome OS is still very alpha software - Second, this guy will never be the audience for such an OS. Thi
by Raphael_Amiard 16y ago
You can deduce two things out of this post :
- First, chrome OS is still very alpha software
- Second, this guy will never be the audience for such an OS.
This certainly leaves the question, for who will this OS be for ? The fact of not even being able, by design, to have two windows visible at the same time is a show stopper for me.
I liked the tone of the review in the end, even if it irritated me at first. The guy is really telling what is bothering him with the os. Some small things, like the screenshot thing, just tells you that this os isn't finished yet.
Some other things, like the files thing, looks like a pointer to me, that google is vastly underestimating the importance of the local storage interface at the moment.
Even if some people don't really grasp the folder model that well (although that seems to be true only for older people now), it doesn't imply that you can take out local storage altogether and have something functionnally equivalent by plugging the "cloud" in.
The major problem i see with cloud storage at the moment is that for most people the local storage is still the link between a space of fragmented cloud storages, and that if you remove it, it really makes things harder more than easier.
- riobard 16y ago“The fact of not even being able, by design, to have two windows visible at the same time is a show stopper for me” You cannot have multiple windows on most mobile devices. Or TV's. People live fine with it.
- kin 16y agoon the other hand, it would be really neat if chrome or some 3rd party app let you split screen two windows
- sullivandanny 16y agoThis isn't a mobile device. It's a laptop. If I can take a laptop right now with Chrome on it, break off two separate windows, why on earth wouldn't I be able to do that on a Chrome laptop? The answer is that they haven't implemented it yet. I expect they will.
- riobard 16y agoBased on my experience watching non-techy users using browsers, and the design goal of Chrome OS, I don't think it is going to happen anytime soon. Quick question: if you can split into two windows, why not 4? 8? Then you end up with a Window-based UI, which is more complicated than simple tab-based. It is very limiting, but I don't think normal people who just check their emails and Facebook updates would find annoying.
- sullivandanny 16y agoI agree. I think few people would be upset if they couldn't open up two separate browser windows. That's hardly a product killer, in and of itself.
- js2 16y ago"is a show stopper for _me_".
- riobard 16y agoTrue. My point is the design of Chrome OS doesn't seem to have superusers in mind.
- jlees 16y agoSome small things, like the screenshot thing, just tells you that this os isn't finished yet. Screenshot functionality is there, though. It's just pretty hard to discover unless you visit help.
- lftl 16y agoI think the issue is that there isn't any feedback when you take a screenshot. You have to take the screenshot and then open the file browser to see it. The other issue Danny was encountering was that Wordpress uses a flash based file upload widget. When flash opens a choose file dialog it opens a GTK-like full system browser. The standard Chrome OS file browser that comes up when you hit a HTML file input is much simpler and would've made the screenshots easier to find.
- sullivandanny 16y agoThat's it exactly! After I finished the review, I talked with Google and said so what's up -- the screenshot feature doesn't seem to work. Yes, it does. You just have no idea that one was made. There's no showing you of what you shot. A file is just made, placed in your screenshot directory, which you can't even get to until you use a program that allows you to select from the hard drive.
- lftl 16y agoctrl - j Should open up the file browser with a screenshot folder as well.