Mixed bag
Via SVN (you don’t need a link, you know where it is): Macromedia Central: a Sherlock-style app. Written. In. Flash. A desktop app. Written in Flash.
You can downlaod and install it via a Flash UI within the webpage which seems scary and cool to me at the same time. The app runs and…
Not as good as Sherlock. Its very impressive that it’s Flash, but it has a few major shortfalls for me:
Unresponsive UI
Aliased text
UI is a little too much like a web-app for me to want to have on my desktop
I just don’t dig mouse-overs on scrollbars. That feels wrong to me
It seems to make everything else running hang a little bit. Uncool.
Now, that’s not to say it doesn’t have its pros. Tha data transfer is faster than you’d expect. The Flash movement in the UI is nice, but I prefer Aqua’s smooth transitions to Flash’s clunky ones. Also, I don’t use applications because of the fact that it’s neat they’re written the way that they are.
Of course I could also spend more than 10 minutse in it before passing judgement. Go see for yourself.