Re: Apple: Please deal with basics
Re: Apple: Please deal with basics
- Subject: Re: Apple: Please deal with basics
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 08:43:57 -0700
On 4/21/02 6:56 AM, "Mr Tea" <email@hidden> wrote:
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This from garbanzito - dated 21/4/02 07.17 am:
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> Finder quits on me more often than any other application.
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Good heavens, Steve! What are you doing to it? I only manage to crash the
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Finder about once a week.
I don't think I have had one single Finder crash in almost a year of OS X. I
didn't know it was possible. Steve must be "doing" things to it. Hacks to
make X work like 9?
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While I feel that it's probably safe to accept the always well-informed
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opinion of Paul Berkowitz that the X Finder is 'incomparably better' than
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what went before, it still behaves like a piece of buggy freeware in some
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crucial areas.
I was referring just to its applescripting. I had to give up scripting the
OS 8/9 Finder, because so much was faulty. Most of it boiled down to its
sluggish operation, particularly moving, copying, naming - what's it's there
for. It would never finish by the time the next script command went into
effect and was always erroring out. I just gave up on it. Whatever Akua did
to accomplish the same tasks was 1000% better. You couldn't really compare
them: Akua, and Jon's (but Akua did 100 times as much as Jon's) worked, and
the Finder didn't. (Well, there were Akua bugs too, but not many in 1.4.3.)
In OS 10.1.x, the Finder's scripting just works. Hurray!
I understand you're referring to other things. even there, I like it better
for the most part. I'm used to Column view now and prefer it to anything in
OS 9. When I go back there, I can't stand it that I can't move up the folder
hierarchy from a given window. I've even got use to the fact that I can't
see much in my desktop (no window-shading) by mostly using it as a folder
rather than a desktop.
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No matter what's going on 'under the hood', one of the
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Finder's most important functions is making it easy to locate your stuff by
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displaying it in a reliable and consistent manner. That just doesn't happen.
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Icon and list views reformat themselves at random, requiring endless visits
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to the view options dialog to restore them to the preferred layout. And
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please don't suggest I use column views instead. They provide a useful
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option for getting places, but that's not how I want to look at a folder's
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contents when I've arrived.
my list views (the only view I use0 never re-format themselves. What do you
mean? I almost always use column view, and they just stay that way. It's
true they zip over to the left when i select something - maybe that's what
you mean. I actually find that convenient 90% of the time. I like to see the
detail on the right. the columns seem to keep the width I assign them. Don't
they for you?
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When the Finder looks stupid (and it often does) the whole Mac OS looks
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stupid - I'm sure that's not what Apple wants.
I find it pretty smart. Not to say I wouldn't accept more improvements, if
they're coming.
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Paul Berkowitz
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