ohmiGene for Mac

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• Amateurish appearance

  iayorkDecember 26, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This program has a really amateurish look-and-feel, to the point that it's unpleasant to use. There's no attempt to follow the Mac HIG. Menus are not in the menubar but are crammed together in a corner of a window. The icons are truly ghastly, apparently scribbled by a four-year-old, cluttered, ugly, and non-explanatory. Even the text associated with (some of) the icons is often unclear (how is a "person" option different from an "individual"?) Many icons have no explanatory text, and I can't even guess what they are supposed to do; mouse-overs don't bring up tooltips. More random garish icons are scattered across the fields, to the point where they overlay text and render it unreadable. The author is French and obviously speaks little or no English; the translation is apparently either with the aid of a dictionary or machine-translation and the result is about as incoherent as you'd expect. Again, a very amateurish attitude. Doesn't import any GedCom files I've tried -- apparently they are the wrong version. The author apparently has made no attempt at backward-compatibility or is completely inflexible. There are many other offputting touches -- windows don't resize, for example. It is quite possible that this is a powerful, capable, and reliable genealogy program. However, I can't imagine trusting any data to this interface. If the author is serious about trying to sell his "Pro" version (which as far as I can see has the same interface as this free version) I strongly suggest he completely re-does the interface, following Apple's standard HIG and hiring people as necessary to make a competent translation and to produce professional-looking icons. Because it didn't import GedCom files I didn't really try it out, so I will be relatively generous in the ratings.

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