My OperaLotus hits some bum notes
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 3:05:26 PM
My fellow Fiendish Games owner, Mike "Mikey" Woodhouse (known universally as "Woody" but full marks to him for continuing to punt the Mikey nickname) hates Lotus Notes with a passion for reasons I can no longer recall. I think the primary one was that it wasn't whatever mail system he was extremely well versed in - probably Outlook.
I, too, work for a company that uses Lotus Notes and it does not bug me except for one feature which relates to the reminders or alarms feature.
When you set an alarm in the calendar, a message pops up on screen at the appropriate time to alert you that you wanted to be reminded of something. So far, so regular.
The pop-up interrupts whatever you are doing, which is fine and dandy.
It also offers a "snooze" option.
Now, to me, when you hit the snooze button, you are telling Lotus Notes: "Naff off, I am busy, working in Word, Excel, Opera, Spotify or whatever."
What actually happens when you hit the snooze button is that Lotus takes control of your PC and takes you out of whatever programme you were in the middle of using (Remote Brain Surgery 2.1, perhaps) into Lotus Notes.
My mental response is always "I have just told you to feck off, why have you grabbed me and taken me somewhere I don't want to go right now?"
Crazy piece of design and one that has completely coloured my view of the entire software suite.
On the subject of software, I finally seem to be getting to grips with Linux as an operating system. I doubt this is because I have become considerably more knowledgeable about Linux; largely it is because the Ubuntu iteration of Linux is a fantastic piece of work, that is pretty much as easy to use as Windows. In fact, the little bit of jiggery pokery required to make things work is just enough to appeal to my love of poking around under the bonnet and totally fecking up the system.
What's more, it's free! You can also run it from a CD without installing it, so you can try before you ... er ... don't buy.
Colour me impressed.
I, too, work for a company that uses Lotus Notes and it does not bug me except for one feature which relates to the reminders or alarms feature.
When you set an alarm in the calendar, a message pops up on screen at the appropriate time to alert you that you wanted to be reminded of something. So far, so regular.
The pop-up interrupts whatever you are doing, which is fine and dandy.
It also offers a "snooze" option.
Now, to me, when you hit the snooze button, you are telling Lotus Notes: "Naff off, I am busy, working in Word, Excel, Opera, Spotify or whatever."
What actually happens when you hit the snooze button is that Lotus takes control of your PC and takes you out of whatever programme you were in the middle of using (Remote Brain Surgery 2.1, perhaps) into Lotus Notes.
My mental response is always "I have just told you to feck off, why have you grabbed me and taken me somewhere I don't want to go right now?"
Crazy piece of design and one that has completely coloured my view of the entire software suite.
On the subject of software, I finally seem to be getting to grips with Linux as an operating system. I doubt this is because I have become considerably more knowledgeable about Linux; largely it is because the Ubuntu iteration of Linux is a fantastic piece of work, that is pretty much as easy to use as Windows. In fact, the little bit of jiggery pokery required to make things work is just enough to appeal to my love of poking around under the bonnet and totally fecking up the system.
What's more, it's free! You can also run it from a CD without installing it, so you can try before you ... er ... don't buy.
Colour me impressed.
