Bear's Log

comments have not been enabled so I’m answering the question here and going to do a trackback… Rui Carmo posted a small bit about Chandler:

I used to think this would be able to stand up to the Outlook hegemony, but I find the current GUI hopelessly confusing. And what’s with the need for a separate Intel package?

While I can’t answer about the GUI thought I can about why we publish a separate package for Intel-based OS X Macs. Basically the decision was made back when our choices when Panther and Tiger were both PPC and Intel was very new, was to go with two package that were smaller in size. Another concern was that the techniques for creating a universal binary was still new and un-proven in the Python and wxPython realm. Thankfully that is not an issue now and one of the things I’m working on is a change to do exactly that. I still feel that we will probably have a huge download size but I guess we will find out.

update: of course after hitting send I realized I can speak also about the GUI issue: The Chandler GUI reflects/exposes a very powerful set of tools to help manage and deal with incoming items (mail, tasks, etc) and also the daily routine of deciding just what needs to be done when and how. So it is very busy and that can, I think, come off as confusing. What’s missing in our Preview is a road-map for completely new users.