On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> I never use stuff like that. It makes it difficult to help other >> people when the basics of user experience in a system are changed. > > That's very generous of you, Godfrey. When I moved over from Windows I just > found the Finder to be counter-intuitive to my way of accessing and managing > files and folders, to the point of finding it extremely frustrating. But my > understanding is that it really is an enhanced Finder. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir
Finder is quite awful as a filesystem navigation/file management tool, it remains inferior to the file management UI's on classic Mac OS, KDE and Gnome, BeOS and any vaguely recent version of Windows. While I can understand Godfrey's choice not to use a replacement as he needs to be familiar offhand with the basic Finder UI for professional reasons, I thoroughly understand why any user who doesn't need to walk others through basic file mangement steps would quickly move up to a Finder replacement. Unfortunately OS X seems to be stuck in the paradigm that pervasive search is an adequate replacement for a decent file manager. Coincidentally it's also the only major OS which has a steady market for replacements file management apps. -Adam Who actually seriously dislikes pervasive search and disables anything beyond basic locate on his *NIX machines as well as Indexing on his Windows machines. The current Macs don't get enough use right now to waste time disabling Sherlock, but it never gets used either. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
