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Re: Finder labels in Panther

On 7/31/03 10:10 AM, Mike Kluev didst favor us with:

> On 31/07/2003 09:00, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I see that Finder labels in Panther are no longer maintained in the file
>> system the way they used to be. I'm hoping this isn't another thing that
>> takes AppleEvents to set and get, but whatever the case may be, how to you
>> access them in Panther? And why, if they (our good friends at Apple) were
>> going to implement them from scratch, didn't they implement something more
>> powerful, like giving us 32 labels instead of 8?
>
> Perhaps because 32 labels will make four times as wide File menu.
> Not the answer to your question though...

Nah, they could just go back to a hierarchical menu like they had in Mac OS
9. As you point out, it would be better than the "cool" thing they have in
Panther.
>
> Frankly I do not like how Panther labels menu is implemented:
>
> - it doesn't work well for color blind people on grayscale
> monitors (unless you move cursor to the label its name is not
> visible).
>
> - it requires to carefully position mouse cursor both vertically
> and horizontally (when you select from the traditional menu you
> have to carefully position in one direction only while you have
> some freedom in the other direction).
>
> - the way it is implemented requires those color circles to be
> small (to not make menu too wide). It is hard to read color of
> small objects.
>
> - it uses "menu title" which is bad thing as to HIG of the
> past (well, HIG might be recently changed to allow this -
> I didn't check - but you know what - I hate when HIG are
> changed to state quite the opposite compared to what they
> said before).

I agree that the menu implementation, while a nice demonstration of what you
can do with the new menus, is not a particularly good implementation for
this.
>
> Also, I do not like how labels are applied to files either.
> Those color ovals look too "kindergarten".

Much of Mac OS X has always looked kindergarten. You're going to start
objecting now? LOL

> And what was wrong with applying color tint to icon itself?

It was fine with me, but perhaps they think that with today's icons it
harder to distinguish a tinted icon.
>
> Finally, labels don't work in list mode (I hope this is easy
> to fix bug).

Have you filed it in Radar?
>
> As a side note, contrary to other responses to this list, I found
> WWDC Panther build too buggy compared to 10.2.6. Hopefully this
> might be changed with 7B21 build but I didn't try it yet - too
> huge download.

Definitely has some bugs, but CW works fine in it and is faster, so I try to
work in Panther as much as I can.

However, I couldn't empty the trash last time I was in Panther. Guess it's
time for a trip to Radar. ;-)

Larry
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