Reading Radar

LL posted release candidate 1.20 RC 13 today (under the test viewers section, release candidates).

First off, the biggest thing about the RC’s since 10, I think… 99.9999% of my crashes are gone (crashed once in RC11 or 12 with a lockup) and no more beachballs, at least not on the MBP. On the Mac Pro, which has an ATI card, I do get very infrequent beachballs. Completely tolerable. on the MBP, it’s become a very stable, very frustration-free client.

Ok, so anyway, the new version has switchable skins now, currently offering the old brown skin and the new light blue skin. It’s up to people to make new skins for those of us who have better things to do. Now if someone could do a whole new UI, that’d be something. Skins? Meh. Who cares.

Using the old look skin:

Using the new look skin:

I have to say, when the new skin first came out, I didn’t like it. At all. It caused eyestrain. But, having used it for awhile now, I greatly prefer it over the old, dark, heavy, clunky, boring look. When you first fire up the new RC, it defaults back to the brown UI. You have to enable the new look, which I promptly did, then log out and log back in again. That should satisfy all the whiners who can’t tell the difference between the blue skin and Dazzle the skinnable interface technology. I hope. But they’ll probably just find something else to fill up every single blog post on the LL blog with replies about.