why is FM's UI so weird and buggy?

[Shmuel Wolfson]

I have never been pleased with the "pods" that FM introduced in FM9. 
They are not standard Windows dialog boxes, which limits the use of 
automation tools like AutoIt and are not as stable as the standard 
dialog box method. It's sad that Adobe chose to put "look and feel" 
ahead of functionality. When someone is using a program for several 
hours a day, they want it to work well. I don't think they give a darn 
as to whether it looks like other Adobe products.

Please get your act together Adobe; trash the "pods" and go back to 
standard Windows dialog boxes.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133


On 26-Feb-13 9:28 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> Thinking about the bizarre UI bugs Rick Quatro reported today, I'm
> wondering how the product got to this sad state.
>
> FM started out on Unix, and a lot of dialogs seem like they haven't
> changed since then, or at least not since the original Mac and Windows
> ports in 1990 and 1992. But that stuff was pretty much rock-solid up
> through FM8.
>
> My impression is that the UI changes Adobe introduced in FM9 were made
> using the Adobe OS Widget Library (OWL), which is designed to provide
> a consistent UI for the Mac and Windows versions of Adobe's products.
>
> Unlike most of those products, FM has no Mac version. If Adobe's QA is
> done primarily on Macs, that could explain why the product has been
> getting buggier and weirder with each release. All the cross-platform
> apps could benefit from a shared library of tools, while FrameMaker
> and any other Windows-only apps would need additional work that the
> budget might not allow.
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