Re: OS X Finder

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: OS X Finder
Date: 06:35 on 03 Jan 2004
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:50:18PM -0600, Peter da Silva 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!
> 
> If you click the oval in the upper right corner of the window, it should
> switch to opening it in the same window.

Yes, that turns the toolbar on and off which for some bizarre reason
changes the default open behavior.  Why they tied the two together, I
have no idea.  Why they decided this was important enough to put a dedicated 
button on the window bar I also have no idea.

But that changes the default behavior to be the way I *don't* want.  I want
the default to be to open a folder in the same window, I just want a
hotkey to open in a different window.


> The other thing is that I think they should have gone to a two button
> mouse, and put all the control-command-shift-option-corner-click crap in
> a contextual menu, ALONG WITH any relevant Services entries, with the
> shorthands presented as accelerators the way key combos are in the main
> menus... because I *still* can't remember all the stupid bloody shorthands
> and options are, and I'm damned if I should need to. I know where to find
> Emacs, thank you very much, and I'm standing well clear.

Eh.  You can get a N button mouse and set it up to do all that.


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