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On 02/01/2004 at 19:50 -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
>On 02/01/2004 at 17:28 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> Enter the OS X Finder. Everything works the same, but they changed the
>> default. Now the default is to open a folder in the same window. Great!
Adding option seemed to work in my quick poke at the Finder, but it
also makes the parent of the new window close. (If you're in the
other Finder mode, where it always opens new windows, this is the
only reason to use it.)
>If you click the oval in the upper right corner of the window, it should
>switch to opening it in the same window.
The Finder doesn't remember toolbar state as often as it should (ie
always). In particular, my Trash folder *always* comes back after a
reboot with toolbar visibility set to 'on' (and, incidentally, the
two list view settings ('Show relative dates' and 'calculate folder
sizes') switched on and off respectively, although I prefer them off
and on).
This isn't too much of a problem under 10.2, because it just moves
the window down a bit. Under 10.3, of course, this means that there's
half a ton of metallised junk and a crappy sidebar too, which
completly fucks over my window positioning (bottom right hand
corner). This is one of the main reasons that I'm still on 10.2 on my
main machine.
>This is one of the two things I think they really screwed up on OS X. They
>should have just Carbonised the existing Finder and LEFT IT ALONE, and then
>started over with the OpenStep file browser as the, and let you pick which
>one gets used when a program opens a file dialog.
John Siracusa has been saying something like this for a long time, as
well as (sagely) pointing out that the 10.3 Finder isn't 'all new',
it's just the 10.2 one with some extra crap shat all over it.
>The other thing is that I think they should have gone to a two button
>mouse
What's wrong with click and hold? Omniweb does it, Finderpop let you
do it (globally!) in Mac OS 8-9, and Fruitmenu and Ittec let you add
it in the Mac OS X Finder. Shame there's no global solution. (That
get-out clause of the 'cog' menu in 10.3 hardly counts).
--
:: paul
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