In article <3e60b2f7$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Well, you could also say Mac OS X breaks all GUI conventions intelligent
> people at Apple spend decades to refine. 

You could. I don't.


> You should not only look at the CPU time wasting effects Mac OS X 
> brings, but also the millions of bugs and things it breaks. 

My CPU is idle most of the time. *That* is wasted CPU time. And yes it 
has bugs, the old Mac OS had plenty of bugs too. Considering its age, it 
is doing quite well.


> From the useless window layering to the dock.  Nothing
> works.  Hardly better than Windos in the end.  And it needs more memory than
> Windos already <sigh>  But of course, under the current leadership at Apple
> a consistent and easy to use user interface is no longer a topic at all.

Everything works. I find it far better than Windows. I've got enough 
memory. The current leadership gave me this, and I'm happy about it.


> Just look at Safari's non-standard appearance...

Yes, annoyingly inconsistent look, but still easy to use. I like the way 
it handles bookmarks.


> Sure, except that the interface is non-standard in every other respect.  The
> Quit menu belongs into the file menu, period. 

No it doesn't, it goes in the application menu.


> And the stupid application menu is just one big usability madness: 
> Maybe you did not notice, but with the application name being the 
> leftmost item the whole menu moves around in every application.

So? It's never been a problem for me. The application menu is bold, it 
makes a nice visual target to offset from. The ordering does not change, 
and the movement is not much.

All this is irrelevant anyway...point is that the official Mac version 
of POV-Ray does not work properly under Mac OS X. That is a simple fact, 
and has nothing to do with your opinions of the Mac OS X GUI. MacMegaPOV 
may have its own inconsistencies, but overall it has been much more 
reliable and it actually works right, so I am going to recommend it over 
the official version.

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