It looks like some of this may be addressed. From what I have read an
overhaul is in order for finder for snowleopard. The rewrite is in
coco and perhaps we'll have these sorts of concerns addressed before
engineers have to die:).
On 9-Dec-08, at 10:06 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Don't know if I'd agree with that, I do like quite a bit about the
finder actually. Like everything, I guess, it's got its quirks
though and certain things about it could certainly use an update.
Column view in and of itself makes the finder far from a joke for
me, I'd love to see something like that in other file managers.
Windows explorer sort of has this, but it's a folder-only treeview
and you have to tab back and fourth between it and the file list,
and that to me is a joke. I also think quicklook is very useful, and
I like its uncluttered interface.
That being said, I hate the fact that it switches back to icon view
sometimes. I hate those dot files it creates in remote folders
(the .DS_Store files can be disabled, but that doesn't help some of
the others it creates). I know what they're for, but it doesn't make
them any less annoying. Its built-in FTP is a crack-up as well, no
upload support? What were they thinking.
I think it's mostly a matter of taste. I like the minimal approach
Finder takes--it's a file manager, and that's all it tries to be.
But sometimes I feel like getting ahold of some of the engineers who
designed Finder and beating their heads against a wall :). It's sort
of a love/hate thing, I guess.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 08:48, David Truong wrote:
The Mac finder is a joke so I'm not surprised.
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Well, Vista does anyway. XP actually handles this very well once
configured properly, it opens all folders in your selected view. This
is what Ars's rant claims Finder does, but on mine it most certainly
doesn't, and that's the problem. I want it to remember to open
everything, and I mean everything, in column view, but disk images
insist on going back to icon mode. At least OS X has a shortcut to
switch the views quickly, unlike Windows, and hitting command+3
when a
disk image opens has pretty much become an automatic habbit I don't
even think about.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 07:00, David Poehlman wrote:
You should see the mess windows makes of this.
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