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Re: just curious

On 8/18/03 7:11 PM, Bob Sabiston didst favor us with:

>>> I've asked this before, but I don't remember getting a straight
>>> answer. Did Apple correct their most idiotic (IMHO) oversight with OS
>>> X, X.1, X.2...
>>>
>>> the incredibly hard-to-implement listing of files by most recent date
>>> in Open Dialog boxes?
>>
>> Yes, that and other changes make the Panther Nav Services dialogs the
>> best
>> yet IMO.
>>
>> However, in all fairness, I don't the lack of this previously was the
>> result
>> of an "idiotic oversight" as much as the fact that Mac OS X was
>> released in
>> a far less mature state than more people realize, and they've been
>> filling
>> the gaps ever since.
>>
>> Larry
>
> Ok, but I still can't believe it took until 10.3--which is not out
> yet-- to get it fixed.

You could say that about a lot of things. ;-) Believe it.

> When I have people come in to work with me, and
> they have never seen OSX, they go to open their file -- which is ALWAYS
> some incomprehensible filename which they only locate by date. When
> they can't list by the most recently saved, that is always what they
> say "God, that is so STUPID. I hate OS X. It sucks!".

I think this is all going to change with Panther.

> It's little
> things like that, just common sense knowledge about typical user
> experience, that I would expect better of from Apple. I would prefer
> that the person who got the little icons to bounce in the dock been
> assigned to list files by their most recent date.

iCandy definitely got a top priority, for better or worse.
>
> just a little rant, useless now that it actually has been fixed thank
> god. What is it, $129? That's the feature I will be paying for.

There are several cool things in Mac OS X worth paying for. Wait until you
see how much faster it is. People will be upgrading to Panther in droves.

If you sign in to the ADC site, there's a stream of a session called Mac OS
X State of the Union. There's lots of interesting stuff in it about what's
new in Panther. Definitely worth watching.

Larry
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