On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:56 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: >> In Windows, click on Windows Explorer, and there is your computer. >> You can even customize it's start location (or could in everything up to XP, >> I haven't bothered to try with Win7 yet). >> If it isn't that easy ion a Mac, they have some work to do. > > It's easier. > > In Mac OS X, you don't have to "click on Finder" or anything to find > your computer. The Finder is started up by the operating system as > soon as you login, it is always available. It presents the Desktop > folder in whatever account you're logged in on as the backdrop screen. > You can configure whatever file system location you want it to present > as default, in whichever of its display modes is most useful to you, > whenever you open a new Finder window to navigate the file system. It > stays running while you have other applications running so that you > have immediate and easy access to the file system at all times.
That is in fact exactly how it works in Windows, KDE and Gnome as well. In all cases the file browser is always running, but you need to open a window for it if it's not already open. On the Mac you have a window open by default on startup unless you tell it not too, Windows doesn't open a window unless you tell it to (but you can tell it to open one simply by dragging that folder to the startup folder in the start menu). Apple has improved the Finder significantly with Leopard, it's not the absolutely atrocious app that it was up through 10.4, but it's still not up to the capabilities of the current Windows Explorer for navigation (or Nautilus and Konqueror, which MS copied heavily in the updates to Explorer introduced in Vista). The one simple change Apple could do to make Finder more usable is adding an Address Bar with the current folder path in it, bonus if it's clickable like it is on Vista and later (Or Nautilus and Konqueror, Konqueror introduced this idea) which massively speeds up jumping around the filesystem. Having full directory trees in the sidebar is also a major advantage, the multi-pane view that Apple uses instead only provides limited equivalence as you can see multiple filesystem trees from one window with Explorer from all locations. -- 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.
