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4 years agoSuper Contributor
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4 years agoI wonder: what is wrong with the v7? From my point of view, v7 is close to perfect. It works simply and unobtrusively. Exactly what I expect from an auxiliary tool like this.
Why do you kill an application like v7 so completely without need. I never called for a v8. A very simple product maintenance would have been perfectly sufficient.
And as far as uniformity on different platforms is concerned: I WANT an application to fit into the respective system. I absolutely can't stand Windows and I avoid it where I can. It puts me in a bad mood when I have to use it. And as much as I dislike the way Windows interacts with you, I hate it when developers of applications think they have to build their own design and operating "philosophy".
This is all about distraction. It costs cognitive energy to have to pay attention to whether and where the little differences are, depending on the application. Among other things, THAT is why Electron is such a disaster: EVERY Electron application feels like an alien. But each in its own way. That is incredibly annoying. And when the devs come from the Windows corner, it gets even worse.
Please please please, at least leave the v7 of the Mac version in the program. I don't miss anything about it, it's perfect the way it is.
Oh, I'm not an old man stuck in the past, by the way. In fact, I use everything as beta, or even test versions (*), that works. MailMate, for example, I have used exclusively as a test release since the beginning. I want the future... NOW. Electron is a step into the past. And a huge one at that.
(*) Never really had any problems with it in over 30 years. I know what I'm doing. :)