Journal Zork the Almighty's Journal: Apple's Interfaces are Retarded 1
I understand why everybody likes Apple's interfaces. If you try to do something simple, it usually works. However, for more complex or repetative tasks there is generally no good way to do various things. Worse still, the UI gets in your way. For example:
In iPhoto, I already have my photos organized into directories. When I import them, I get film rolls corresponding to my directories. So far so good. However, the files can not be sorted by anything inside the film rolls, so when I do a slideshow it is all out of order. No sweat, you say, I can just make albums from each film roll. Have you ever tried creating multiple albums in this program ? Good god! It is fucking terrible! You have to drag each one - the command "make album from selection" is greyed out if you select a film roll - then it switches to the album, and you have to scroll up the list back to the photo library, locate the next album, and continue. Honestly, this program is fucking irritating.
(update) Ackk! It's even worse than I first believed. There is no way to automatically sort all albums by filename either. Why Apple, Why ?!! Why does it have to suck so bad ?!! Auggghhh!!!
In iPhoto, I already have my photos organized into directories. When I import them, I get film rolls corresponding to my directories. So far so good. However, the files can not be sorted by anything inside the film rolls, so when I do a slideshow it is all out of order. No sweat, you say, I can just make albums from each film roll. Have you ever tried creating multiple albums in this program ? Good god! It is fucking terrible! You have to drag each one - the command "make album from selection" is greyed out if you select a film roll - then it switches to the album, and you have to scroll up the list back to the photo library, locate the next album, and continue. Honestly, this program is fucking irritating.
(update) Ackk! It's even worse than I first believed. There is no way to automatically sort all albums by filename either. Why Apple, Why ?!! Why does it have to suck so bad ?!! Auggghhh!!!
AppleScript (Score:2)