This is OK in a graphics app, where you make the windows large (if not full-screen) and work in them for long periods of time but it’s distracting in an app with a little window that sits off in the corner of your screen, usually in the background. What bothered me the most, though, was Tweetbot’s decision to set itself apart from other apps by putting a dark border around three sides of its window. It has an option for showing large inline images like the iOS version, but I everything else about the display looks the same.
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Magically, an updated Tweetbot, 1.5, appears in the Mac App Store the day after I complain. The “Retweeted by” notation is bold and dark, a strange choice for metadata the iOS version uses light gray to avoid intruding on the tweet text.
Tweeted photos are actually shown smaller on the Mac than they are on the iPhone, although large inline photos are a recent development on the iPhone. Even Apple, the king of “we know what’s best,” gives you the freedom to choose any font, font size, and color in Messages.Īn app that’s all about text should give the user a better opportunity to make the reading experience comfortable. There are no themes, not even a light and dark. Overall, Tweetbot’s preferences are thin. On the MacBook Air, where my eyes are closer to the screen, Large works well. On the iMac, I’ve been switching between Large, which isn’t quite large enough, and Huge, which is too much so.
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What’s the point of having a computer full of fonts if I can’t use them? There’s no font choice at all, and the sizes are Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, and Huge. The choices for font and font size are unnecessarily limited. (To Tweetbot’s credit, it saves some space by putting the list and new tweet buttons in the title bar.) Another mostly empty dark bar that holds nothing but the gear icon, a target for a popup menu. There’s more wasted space along the bottom. Despite having both menu items and keyboard shortcuts for changing views, Tweetbot insists on showing you a toolbar. You can get rid of the toolbar temporarily by opening a new Tweetbot window (which won’t have a toolbar) and closing the original, but the next time you switch views-from the Timeline to Mentions, for example-a new window with a toolbar will appear. In the screenshot, I have more buttons showing than I really think is necessary, simply because turning them off (which you can do via the View‣Displayed Tabs submenu) leaves more empty space. A big dark bar that’s largely empty seems like a waste to me. Let me start by saying I love Tweetbot on my iPhone, and that’s why I was willing to give the Mac version a try, even though I knew from the screenshots that there were aspects of its design I probably wouldn’t be happy with.īefore installing Tweetbot, my biggest concern was with the toolbar or tab bar along the left edge of its window. I think I understand why, but it isn’t going to make it easier to decide whether to keep using it. I had it running on the iMac at the office and hated it, but now I’m running it on my MacBook Air and it seems fine. I bought the Mac version of Tweetbot today, and I’m not sure what I think of it.
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