Re: Comments Sought - Browser as launcher revisited...
Re: Comments Sought - Browser as launcher revisited...
- Subject: Re: Comments Sought - Browser as launcher revisited...
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 19:46:40 +0100
This from Peter Bunn - dated 3/7/02 05.36 pm:
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I would be _very_ interested to hear comments and discussion about the
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utility (if any) of the concept. I have plenty of ideas about it myself,
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but would much like to hear from others. I'm not quite ready for it yet,
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but I would welcome beta testers if anyone can find the time.
I can't help wondering why. Unless you want to bring the kind of web-style
navigation that disfigured Windows 98 onto the Mac Platform.
People will need a fairly compelling reason to want to access local files
from a web browser interface, however slick. I'd rather do it the other way
and launch URLs from Finder window toolbars, or even better, a scriptable
'extra docks' utility like DragThing. In OS X, there are already a number of
'Finder replacements' out there in the shareware world that try to improve
on the standard ways of locating, opening and launching items. I use SNAX
from time to time because it allows me to get root access without logging in
as system administrator, and has a few other tricks up it's sleeve that
exploit OS X's UNIX underpinnings without me having to dirty my hands with
any command line stuff. And its column views are more useful than those of
the Finder, combining the accessibility of column and list views in a single
window. But it's nothing like a web browser, nor would I want it to be.
Navigation is a joy in OS X. No more multiple window clutter as you delve
into deeply nested folders, and you can send a single 'file browser' window
sweeping across your drives like a search-light with a few keyboard
shortcuts. I stopped using the Launcher (of which I was previously a fan)
when it was made into a separate process, no longer integrated into the
Finder (sometime around 8.6, I think), and I haven't missed it in X. A
browser-based launcher would just be a distraction, interfering with the
proper function of my web browser as, um, a web browser. (I'm already
seriously ticked-off about the way Adobe apps and others hijack my browser
for displaying help files, so I don't need anything else messing with it.)
Sorry if that all sounds a bit negative. I'm sure there are others who will
welcome the idea...
T.
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