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> > I think it's good to have options. Different people think different
> >way. Different tasks require different approaches.
>
> Following this logic has no end: You can't please everyone at the
> same time. Better make _one_ way to work as well as possible than to
> put thousand different so-and-so approaches there at the same time.
I don't agree. Of course you don't have to have unlimited supplies of
different ways of doing things, but it's nice that you can do the same
thing (like copy/paste) by accessing it from a pulldown menu on the top,
by the contextual menu that springs when you right-click the item, by
dragging and dropping or by using a keyboard shortcut. Most of these
options are available on Mac too, BTW, but only for the most used jobs.
Windows is fully keyboard accessible (but also fully mouse accessible:
you _can_ do anything in Windows without keyboard, even type, although
that's difficult), unlike Mac. But besides that, you can drag&drop if
that seems better, use the contextual menu or the pulldown menu. So
what's bad with this? Nothing, I'd say.
> > > It's a bad thing that the designers didn't have a clue, which way is
> >> the best. Seems that they didn't do any research at all (like Apple
> >> interface designers did). If you need additional ways for doing
> >> things, get some third party file manager. There are several
> >> available for Mac.
> >
> > Later on you say:
> >
> > > You are talking aout options, not the default machine you get
> >from the store.
> >
> > ..so isn't that a bit paradoxical? =) Try to decide! =)
>
> My point was:
>
> The Mac ships with _one_ file manager. If you don't like it, get
> another from third party supplier. But the machine you get from the
> store has a very clear and simple way to do things.
How many typical end users have enough technical knowledge to do this?
I don't think many.
> Windows machine has two or three (*) different approaches for
> browsing the file system by default. Neither of them is the primary
> one.
BTW, Windows 2000 has the Mac-style file-browsing as a clear primary
alternative, the Explorer and Command Prompt can only be launched from
the "Run" menu (like regedit). And even previously for the inexperienced
user, this has been the default choice, since it's on the desktop and
thus easy to access.
I think all these have their place. The "My Computer" style browsing
(like in Mac) is good for many cases. I use it most often when I need to
copy or move stuff from place to another. You can easily open two
folders and drag the desired files from one to another. Explorer shows
better where you currently are and what is the hierarchy of folders, so
that's what I use most of the time. Command line can be used by power
users for extensive operations (unfortunately it's very limited compared
to unix shell and so, but anyway).
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