On Oct 30, 2006, at 7:26 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
This is one of those niggling things. Why can't we just
check and change it in Finder's info window?
Because the Finder's Get Info window is designed for typical Mac
users, who have no idea what creators and types are or how to
change them.
Then the Finder could use a private plugin interface for the info
panel, and then when you installed the developer tools you would
get an added panel in the info box for technical stuff like this.
Oh come on. Developers are geeks. I just loooove doing this kind of
stuff with command line tools. Didn't you know that? ;-)
People who want that kind of control use File Buddy or some other
third party product that exposes and allows you to set more of
this kind of stuff.
Only because it doesn't exist in the Finder.
Not neccesarily. File Buddy not only has fields for these, but it
remembers values you've used before to simply using them again, and
it will create droplets to set those values just by dropping files on
them. I doubt the Finder would make it that easy. Besides, Apple's
collective memory seems to have forgotten about the value of types
and creators, so I doubt they'd see any value in this.
Not to say that no-one would still use a third part product for it.
That's where
other file meta-data is accessible.
This is not the only meta-data that can't be set in the Finder's
Get Info window.
Or are they afraid naive users will shoot themselves in the
foot too often?
I think it's more that it's considered too technical and would
confuse people. Most people would not have a clue what kind of
values to set or even that they always have to be four characters.
I've have many users of File Buddy's Info window write me to tell
me that File Buddy wouldn't accept "RTF" as a file type, which is
true, because it's not "RTF', it's "RTF ".
Then mabye you should have File Buddy tell the users that the code
must be exactly 4 characters in length instead of just not
accepting it.
I believe it does, in at least one place where this can be an issue.
Disclaimer: I have never used File Buddy
*gasp*
Larry
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