[Design] Identifying the Intel-Mac build

[Grant Baillie]

On 18 Jul, 2006, at 12:36, Pieter Hartsook wrote:

> I was trying to think of a way to update the Chandler website about
> what's new in alpha3. One thing that's new is native Intel support for
> the Mac. But as far as I know there in no visible difference between
> the Intel build and previous Mac builds.
>
> Maybe we could either add a note to the About Chandler box stating
> this is a native Intel build for the Mac, and/or add something to the
> splash-screen when the program loads?

I'm not really the engineering contact for this kind of thing, but it  
looks to me as if tweaking the splash screen (and/or the About  
Chandler box) to show something platform and/or architecture specific  
is mainly a testing issue (i.e. the code changes aren't hard).  
Another option might be a way to change the app's version string to  
include extra info, though I'm not so familiar with how the build  
system produces the version string.

> From a marketing perspective a picture is worth 1K words... A
> screenshot showing something in the program that's unique to the
> native Intel build is much more effective than just stating that in
> text.
>
> Any comments on how appropriate or difficult that would be get in the
> the alpha3 release?

Well, the only "visible difference" of intel Chandler I can think of  
would be speed, so maybe we should have a movie showing new-found Mac  
blazingness :)?

Another suggestion is to have another window near Chandler in the  
screen shot, proving it's an Intel Mac running the app. (Pedantically  
speaking, that doesn't prove we built it for intel, though, it could  
theoretically be running a PPC binary in Rosetta). The best thing I  
can think of is the "Processors Palette", which shows your CPUs'  
usage, and has fairly prominent intel chip-like icons.

--Grant