I keep hearing new people using VO suggest that apple change the way the
Apple OS works. What you dont seem to understand, VO works exactly the
way the Mac OS works for the sighted. It is intended to be this way
and VO is not an add on that changes the way the background OS works
like JAWS in the PC. Apple is not going to pay any attention to
suggestions that they redesign their OS 10 operating system for every
signted and blind person because several people used to using PC want
VO to act like a Jaws PC. VO mimics the apple OS and does this so that
both the sighted and blind can work together with a common operating
system and common GUI. To make VO differrent from the OS10 operating
system would pull VO out from inside and part of the operating system
and set up a separate overlay program like Jaws is in the windows system
and this is totally outside the intent of Apple. Forget the PC, you are
now using the Apple Mac and its far better operating system and GUI.
Vickie Weir
Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
It does this to me, as well. From what I can see, it's just the way
OS X handles things. It does make some sense, though, since selection
in list and column modes works a bit differently than it does on
other GUI platforms such as Windows or Gnome. When you open a folder,
you're automatically selected on the first item in that folder. I'm
guessing that from the point of view of the OS, when you delete an
item, there's no item selected (which makes sense) and so it puts you
back at the top of the previous folder. To me, it would seem more
logical just to have no item selected. Perhaps we should suggest it
to Apple. I'm not exactly sure how icon view reacts either, as I
prefer column mode. But I believe selection works a bit differently,
so I'll try it.
On Sep 20, 2006, at 3:06 PM, yvonne thomson wrote:
Hi, all.
I don't know if this has been discussed before, and I certainly
can't find it in the archives, but I've got a question about the
finder.
Here's the story. I'm sorting out my incoming directory. It's got
downloaded files, random text snippets, that kind of thing. I need
to delete some, move others, you know the drill. The problem is, it
seems that in list mode or column mode, whenever I hit cmd-delete to
send things to the trash, I get zapped to the top of the folder I'm
in, rather than staying where I was when I deleted the file. I have
the usual, all cursors tracking each other setup. So, can anyone
explain to me *why* this happens? I'm presuming it's os x thing
rather than a VO thing, but I haven't been using it long enough to
be sure. As for Icon mode, I don't use it much, and testing it now,
I have absolutely no idea *what* it's doing in that case.
