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Originally Posted by Lady Blue
[SIZE="1"] I don't know what all the fuss is about with those who don't like it. I don't understand. Should I expect it to make my coffee in the morning too?
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It is inconsistent with the operating system, it is radically different from all other pieces of software.
The first time I used it, it took me a very long time to figure out how to jump out of the book, how to add book into the reader, how to do lots of little things ...
I have no such problems with other programs. I use FreeBSD, Linux, Windows (all previous versions). I have used QNX, BeOS, I have played with OpenSolaris, several Unixes, and of course Mac OSX, yet I can not remember feeling so frustrated with software. I am an alpha geek and I usually enjoy playing with and discovering cool features in unusual pieces of software. I occasionally teach windows, AutoCAD, various office products, special SCADA-HMI software. As a part of my job I design user interfaces for SCADA-HMI programs used in operator rooms to run factory.
With inconsistency I mean
- when the program is maximized and the TaskBar in Windows is in "Auto hide" mode, the task bar is not shown when I go down with the mouse pointer. I have never had such problem with other SW. I find this extremely annoying due to my preferred workflow.
- Drag & Drop from other programs (Explorer, Total commander) does not work.
- Drag & Drop inside the Sony Library program does not work in some places, and works in unpredictable ways in other places.
- I can not save the book to the disk (I mean save under name I chose in the directory I select). I have "purchased" a book (with the $0 pricetag) on a windows computer at work and I wanted to take it home on an USB stick. I had to play a detective and it took me lots of effort to find a book on disk (file with meaningless cryptic name in a funny directory created automatically by Sony Software) and copy it on USB stick
- The color scheme is different than in the rest of the system. What if the user needs a high contrast color scheme?
- there are lots of little things that I can not remember from the top of my head, because I use Sony Library very seldom and it is impossible to install it under Wine here on Mint Linux.