Re: Mac OS X Finder and changing extensions

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Mac OS X Finder and changing extensions
Date: 15:51 on 02 Sep 2003
> To some degree, yes.  But it worked quite a bit differently (for example,
> it never tried to enforce extensions on a given file).

That's the Taint of the Beast of Redmond.

> Also, another way you can change the extension with Hide Extension on is in
> the Get Info window of a file.  It's buggy and sometimes doesn't work
> right, though.

Hide Extension is one of those things I always turn off when I find it on.

Along with things like "Automatically run helper application after
downloading" and other wide open security holes.

> >What *I* wish they'd do is make it easier to get to the metadata from the
> >UNIX side. [...]

> The Mac-Carbon distribution (port of the MacPerl Mac:: extensions)

That's jumping from the frying pan into the blast furnace. My mind doesn't
work the way Larry Wall's does, so Perl isn't a nifty toolkit for me, it's
the Valley of the Shadow of Death.

> And, of course, there are the included programs in the Developer Tools,
> GetFileInfo and SetFile (which the p[sg]etfinfo programs are modeled after).

Guess I'll grovel around in there, do they call anything GCC isn't capable
of getting me into?

> It seems like it at first glance, but it also seems like you can disable
> most of the crap, like the sidebar, to make it function pretty much like
> how you might want it.

Hopefully.

I *like* the toolbar, I like having a common user interface feature like that
in most programs (and I wish it was *all* programs).

It looks like it's gone for good, alas.

God I wish they'd fix iTunes and a couple of other programs to use the normal
GUI, though, so I could theme the Metal out of them. And so iTunes would
"jump up and down like a Jack Russel Terrier" instead of popping up
Windows-style and stealing the focus from the app I was REALLY working on.

METAL DELENDA EST.

There's stuff above here

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