Sametime 7.5.1 Mac Client
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It's great to finally see the released SameTime Client for the Mac but I do have to ask one question? Did you do any beta testing on the mac side of things at all? With a marked increase of Notes / Domino professionals moving towards the Mac client you'd think there would be enough people to invite for testing of a specific implementation. Of course having people testing is one thing, actually listening to their feedback is another.
A few of the problems that are in the gold release of Sametime 7.5.1 Mac were also in the beta client. Things like the About and Preferences menus under the 'SameTime' menu not working, but their counterparts under the file and help menus working fine.
Tried setting your geographic location yet? The mac client can't save it, it complains that the Location Server could not be found. This works fine on the windows version of the client.
But the biggest flaw I've found. It doesn't honor the Mac's Dock properly. After starting the application it adds a nice SameTime icon to the dock. Wanting to have the SameTime client start automatically I did what I normally do on the Mac, I right-clicked the icon in the dock and selected the 'Open At Login' option. After rebooting to test the SameTime client didn't, instead I got a Java console that did nothing. Starting SameTime actually runs java with a few parameters, the dock icon is just an alias to the java executable without the parameters. So no auto start of the client for me.
So come on IBM, why not take advantage of ALL your community users and start a program for them to have early access to these betas and then listen to their feedback. Design Partners and Sametime related business partners are one thing but the people you've got to make happy are us early adoptors who are going to blog their results... Good or Bad...
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It's great to finally see the released SameTime Client for the Mac but I do have to ask one question? Did you do any beta testing on the mac side of things at all? With a marked increase of Notes / Domino professionals moving towards the Mac client you'd think there would be enough people to invite for testing of a specific implementation. Of course having people testing is one thing, actually listening to their feedback is another.
A few of the problems that are in the gold release of Sametime 7.5.1 Mac were also in the beta client. Things like the About and Preferences menus under the 'SameTime' menu not working, but their counterparts under the file and help menus working fine.
Tried setting your geographic location yet? The mac client can't save it, it complains that the Location Server could not be found. This works fine on the windows version of the client.
But the biggest flaw I've found. It doesn't honor the Mac's Dock properly. After starting the application it adds a nice SameTime icon to the dock. Wanting to have the SameTime client start automatically I did what I normally do on the Mac, I right-clicked the icon in the dock and selected the 'Open At Login' option. After rebooting to test the SameTime client didn't, instead I got a Java console that did nothing. Starting SameTime actually runs java with a few parameters, the dock icon is just an alias to the java executable without the parameters. So no auto start of the client for me.
So come on IBM, why not take advantage of ALL your community users and start a program for them to have early access to these betas and then listen to their feedback. Design Partners and Sametime related business partners are one thing but the people you've got to make happy are us early adoptors who are going to blog their results... Good or Bad...
Comments
Posted by Adam Gartenberg At 10:40:01 PM On 04/26/2007 | - Website - |
I think we should all get together and buy Maureen Leland a MacBook... maybe we'd finally get our Mac Designer client back!
Posted by The Turtle At 12:03:22 AM On 06/02/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Sander At 01:25:32 AM On 04/26/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Turtle At 04:20:40 PM On 05/08/2007 | - Website - |