On Jul 1, 2004, at 11:58 PM, Larry le Mac wrote:
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Oh dear lord, I promise I'm not going to make any comments about your preference for Explorer. Really, I'm not. Buddha help me, my head is exploding!
Thanks for the suggestion of Path Finder, I will try it.
However, I am a serious Mac fanatic, but I have never been too proud to realise when the opposition has something worthwhile, take right mouse button,
Apple still doesn't sell two-button mice, and in OS 9 there used to be a wonderful utility called FinderPop that would pop up the control-click menu if you held down the mouse button long enough, completely obviating the need for any more buttons.
I suspect there's a similar utility for OS X, but since I have a four button mouse :-) <http://www.kensington.com/html/1175.html> that you'll take from me when you pry it from my cold dead fingers, I've never looked.
contextual menues,
Contextual menus predate Windows by quite a bit...they were present in the Xerox Alto system that was shown to Apples Mac engineers in those early days. (I know this because when I came to work here at the College, we had 4 of the successors to those system as word processing units, complete with the big 400dpi laser printers, 19" portrait grayscale monitors and 8" AND 5 1/4" floppy disks. These were the very first networked systems in the College, using some proprietary Xerox thing to connect them to a centralized hard drive used for storage.)
visual indication on the icon that a file is an alias,
This was true when aliases were introduced on Macs, way pre-Win95. Prior to OS 9, aliases always had their name in italics, since they were first introduced in OS 7, iirc. It's only recently that they felt the need to stick the dumb little arrows on..I don't know why, maybe to make the switchers happy :-P
well there are MASSES of examples where the Mac OS has improved by copying Windoze!!
Usually by doing it first...
Also, I'm not positive again, but I seem to recall that the column view in finder is a hangover from NeXT, which, again, predates Windows95...There was some controversy when Rhapsody was going to have that as it's *only* file navigation view.
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