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No offense, but your aesthetic sensibilities suck if you think this argo UML is a desktop class application in the realm of natively built desktop class apps.
by jawngee 14y ago
No offense, but your aesthetic sensibilities suck if you think this argo UML is a desktop class application in the realm of natively built desktop class apps.
These apps belong to what I refer to as the "just barely good enough" class of desktop apps. Doesn't look native, doesn't feel native, aesthetics are strictly academic stuck in the 1990's and usability is just north of nominal.
This is a prime example. Fonts, control spacing, inconsistent sizing, 8-bit aliased bitmaps ... it looks like crap compared to a native app like OmniGraffle.
- gouranga 14y agoNo offense taken. Perhaps a bad example aesthetically I agree, but otherwise the experience is good. Please note that Argo is a heavyweight engineering tool with metadata, not a pretty picture generator. It's an order of magnitude more powerful with respect to semantic modelling. What it looks like is less important that how it works in that sector. EDIT: also regarding native appearance. Every web site looks different - should have a common stylesheet for everyone? No.