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Sunday, June 15, 2008 by Draginol | Discussion: Personal Computing
Impulse doesn't care where you got the programs, you can keep them side by side.
Minimizing Impulse to the Impulse dock I can quickly access all my stuff.
Impulse's community features are extremely advanced. Friends lists (which work back and forth with games), blogs, tracking, user ranking, etc.
My Friends list. Also coming soon: Facebook integration.
Live chat features about your favorite games, apps, or whatever else.
Impulse is a digital distribution platform. But its store also supports sending users a boxed version too (for participating publishers).
Reply #4 Sunday, June 15, 2008 3:59 AM
For the time being i am sticking with the good old SDC, but the interface does show promise
Reply #5 Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:25 AM
Does it let you choose which tab to put the programs under?
Reply #7 Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:07 PM
I really like the direction of Impulse though I am not a gamer so all that part means nothing. The rest of it though certain is looking interesting. I only wish it didn't use the IE engine in the browser.
Reply #9 Sunday, June 15, 2008 3:49 PM
Great that'll cut down on the number of forum complaints from people who don't like certain programs being listed under Desktop instead of Tools
Reply #10 Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:54 PM
Still seems like DriveScan is under Desktop
Reply #11 Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:29 PM
But what he's saying is once we have the full release of Impulse you'll be able to organize apps under any tab you want. I do believe.
Reply #12 Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:11 PM
Exactl. I could move DriveScan to tools or create a new folder called Disk utils.
Reply #13 Sunday, June 15, 2008 10:50 PM
Shouldn't it be there in the first place though?
Reply #14 Monday, June 16, 2008 9:39 AM
Well, the alternative would be to write their own browser rendering engine. And since IE is already pre-installed on all XP/Vista computers it would be silly not to use it.
(Had to use HR since Opera 9.5 decides that all carriage returns should put the cursor at the top instead of below the text I currently wrote..)
Reply #15 Monday, June 16, 2008 12:14 PM
I already don't like that Steam doesn't want to comply with my OS's native look and feel (which is a theme called Visty for XP -- the y instead of a is intentional). Impulse also looks to do the same. I don't want someone else's theme -- I want mine. I hope that there is a way to address that with Impulse. The performance overhead on custom themes and all these different tab pages could be excessive, so that concerns me. Also, the dock thing also concerns me. I don't want my system looking/functioning like OSX.
I'm one of those people who only authorizes 4 or 5 things to start up with my machine out of a pool of 30-something programs that think they should start on start up and waste memory. More developers need to take into consideration that computer resources are still finite. I wouldn't even use steam (I haven't used it in months and it hasn't been allowed to start at start up in years) if I weren't forced into it.
Hopefully the above is viewed as constructive criticism.
Reply #16 Monday, June 16, 2008 12:41 PM
In reading peoples comments about Impulse most if not all deal with how Impulse works and the need for more or less functions. You know, the normal comments that are made when a new program is being released.
Bottom line, it is worth looking at, you can then decide if you want to use it.
Reply #17 Monday, June 16, 2008 12:45 PM
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Reply #19 Monday, June 16, 2008 11:07 PM
I agree, WebKit or Gecko (which are quite small) would be very smart to integrate in to Impulse.
Reply #20 Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:23 AM
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Reply #1 Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:20 AM