[Design] Identifying the Intel-Mac build

[Grant Baillie]

On 18 Jul, 2006, at 16:46, Ted Leung wrote:

>
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:
>
>> On 18 Jul, 2006, at 12:36, Pieter Hartsook wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>
> How about showing the OS X Finder Get Info dialog, showing that  
> it's a "Universal" binary?

Because it isn't Universal :(.

(I think we build separate PPC/Intel apps partly because we didn't  
want to double the size of an already chunky download, and partly  
because it would have required a lot of ugly and potentially  
destabilizing Makefile/configure hackery).

--Grant