I use the bar all the time,
I know what the icon looks like, the colour bothered me more to be honest
also if i need to I can read what its called...
its not hard to read.
It isn't but the point of the colour cue is to avoid going that extra step, of course if the colour there bothers you in some way you I can understand how grey is much more preferable to you.
In any case that clearly signals to me, once more, how apple should offer a system wide option for this. Such a simple to implement ui choice that splits the users in terms of their preferences shouldn't go without an option. Actually is there's one thing that needs an option it's when users are 50-50% on what they prefer the best, all the more so if one 50% (and here it's the colour side) are vehemently in favour of it and feel it impacts on their work to a great extent.
Sadly, like I ve said before, this is clearly an ego thing for some ui designer here. It's not the same as ical or contacts gaining the ios look that people complain about that could be put down to marketing, and, although i don't believe so, one could claim it will lead to more mac sales. It's not the matte vs. glass issue where the choice was harder to implement at no cost or to no strong visual impact on the macs. It's not something even that gives some particular type of branding or look about os x.
There's hardly any reason why the user shouldn't be able to select if they do want colour in the sidebars (or for that matter on the dreadful monochrome icons in mail, safari etc.) or not. People are going to the lengths of installing a system hack that impacts the performance on their machines to get colour on their mac (and hopefully sandboxing via the app store and the like, won't kill simbl...), that means a lot of people (myself included) really do need it, not just want it.
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Amen. All this texting, IM'ing, social networking - it's created/ing a generation of anti-social individuals. I'm only 35, and I've seen it tremendously, especially with H.R. departments having difficulty in hiring individuals with reasonable social skills. Technology should be an extension of humanity, not in lieu of humanity.
On the weekends, I make it a rule to avoid as much tech as possible, it's amazing how much of the world is unnoticed when you're buried into your smart phones and notebooks.
amen to that. I will have to follow your rule. I done tech free weeks before, but it's not easy, whoever claims there isnt an element of addiction there are simply lying to themselves. I ditched my iphone for this very reason for the crappiest phone one could own. Such freedom to not have to google things up, or compulsively check emails. I m 33 btw, you don't know how many times I 've been at a waiting room, or in a doctors office and I wanted to flirt with a girl and she wouldn't let here eyes off the phone. It's kinda sad the world we leave in when a girl is texting her friend on facebook and is avoiding what's happening here and now in the real world.
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I turn my phone off at 6pm, I may be on the web late, but I never go on lame book or this social networking junk, I work on writing and stuff, and do important things to me,
social networking is a waist of time for a software pirate who is also a data horder...yes I hord data...yeah thats a bit of a problem....
I hate my generation, they don't even know what good music is, and all they lissen to is that rap trash. how the hell is that music? or that beaber girl, also who cares about the "stars" in hollywood? it seems ever one but me.... never seen the important of staking people online like most kids my age do.
back to the topic...I like finders new looks.
I hate most current music too, and I hoard data like crazy. The house might look clean and tidy with less stuff than most, but boy are these hard drives full with whatever piece of knowledge or entertainment I can get my hands on.
