On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:11 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
If you mean just that normal Finder search window, opened with cmd-
F, then the following remark applies:
This search window is just awful and completely inefficient because:
-when Toolbar is turned on, the insertion point is NOT in the
search field, I have to go there and click there in...
-when toolbar is turned off (which I prefer, I do not use tool- or
sidebar), the insertion point is in the search field, but is never
visible. That means, if I have to correct the spelling of the
search term, I have again to move the mouse to the respectiv
place...
Still, when I want a search that works, I find that minor UI
deficiencies are not an insurmountable impediment.
If, after a search, you have to resize every time that window and/or
put it to show another view, that's just an enormous annoyance
Since I have to do none of those things, I'm happy enough with it.
-the display of found items is completely other than ma standard
setting: always icon view, 2 label lines underneath the icon, a
very densly grid, which makes labels unreadable
I have no idea what you are talking about. The command-F window
has the standard four View icons in the top bar. Mine always comes
up in List view, so clearly it can be trained (though I don't
remember how I did this -- probably it just comes up in whatever
view you used last).
As mentioned in my previous mail, I DO NOT use toolbars, all my
windows are set being without tool- or sidebars.
My standard setting for windows is icon view, icon size 20 (=small
icons), font size 11, label alignment right, label lines: 1, grided,
as outlined above (see attached "Standard window")
<Standard window.png>
The window showing the results comes like this (see attached "Search
result window", which does a "plist" search in the above shown
standard window)
<Search result window.png>
It is icon view, big icons, 2 label lines underneath the icon, a
very densly grid, which makes labels unreadable, the window is a
pretty small window, not allowing to see the path of an item nested
in some subfolders at a glance, and you have no control to change
the standard setting of that window.
Naturally I can now change the view, e.g. resize the icons by means
of the slider or put it in list view, but that requires each time a
supplemetary handling, and that's what I call major annoyance.
Apple has stored the controls you complain are "missing" inside an
assistive interface that you have intentionally turned off. If you
want to turn it off, you have to accept all the consequences of having
turned it off. If it is a "major" enough annoyance, you may decide to
turn it back on.
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