Originally posted by hopscotch Of course it used to look worse, I was using it before it even had a gui. Just... to say that you're not going to use COMPRESSION software only because it doesn't look nice... Christ almighty. I weep for humanity.
It does matter. Maybe not to the extent that you're suggesting, but user experience is very important in deciding whether to use a program or not. I get what I need from winrar and it doesn't make me feel like my computer is working in the windows 3.1 era.
Originally posted by Starrman It does matter. Maybe not to the extent that you're suggesting, but user experience is very important in deciding whether to use a program or not. I get what I need from winrar and it doesn't make me feel like my computer is working in the windows 3.1 era.
I'll admit it's been a while. Maybe it doesn't hold for 8zip anymore, but it's still a valid consideration that a GUI be welcoming and create a good user impression.
Originally posted by Starrman I'll admit it's been a while. Maybe it doesn't hold for 8zip anymore, but it's still a valid consideration that a GUI be welcoming and create a good user impression.
I mostly use 7zip from the context menu in Explorer.
I very rarely have to use the GUI (having said that, the last version of winrar I had fits your description of 7zip in being Win3.1 looking).
Great open source / freeware apps
29 Dec '09 08:16
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