Awesome

Brilliant!!!  

Looking good!

The only trouble i have had with it is that it doesn't recognize games installed via SDC and just shows them as available to download! I also miss the display that shows you what d/l speed you are receiving as you only get a minimal d/l bar under the title.

For the time being i am sticking with the good old SDC, but the interface does show promise

Does it let you choose which tab to put the programs under?

Sounds cool   

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.

 

Yep.  You can organize your programs any way you want.

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

Still seems like DriveScan is under Desktop

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.

Exactl. I could move DriveScan to tools or create a new folder called Disk utils.

Shouldn't it be there in the first place though?

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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.

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(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..)

Sorry for not joining the praise bandwagon, but I'm heavily concerned about performance and resource use. This looks like a bloated program that attempts to usurp many of the features already built into Windows when it comes to managing programs in particular. Performance and memory use concern me, not pretty interfaces and excessive versatility.

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.