Re: Dock folder menus
Re: Dock folder menus
- Subject: Re: Dock folder menus
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:35:47 -0600
On Dec 9, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Chris Page wrote:
On Dec 6, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
There are situations where following folder aliases into sub-folder
is a good thing and other situations where it's a very bad thing.
(The Script menu follows folder aliases and becomes completely
unusable if you install an alias to a large folder in Script menu.)
Unusable in what way, exactly?
Folder aliases are very useful for building a hierarchy from
multiple sources without copying files around, especially if you
want an item to show up in more than one category. I would hate to
not have aliases produce sub-menus everywhere.
If there's a usability problem or a performance problem those should
be fixed, not worked around.
Good point, so I explain, exactly. The particular folder I'm using for
a menu may not be typical. It contains 3 aliases to folders and 6 real
folders, each containing more aliases to folders.
Folder alias #1 points to a folder containing year numbered folders
(2008, 2007, 2006, ...) each containing month numbered folders, each
containing day numbered folders, for a total of more than 1080
folders. Folder aliases #2 thru #6 point to folders containing a total
of 137 sub-folders containing only files. Other folder aliases (about
a dozen) point to folders containing no sub-folders. That's over 1200
folders!
If I place an alias to the menu folder into Script menu, here's what
happens:
I click on the Script menu icon in the menu bar. A short pause, then
the busy cursor appears, and continues to spin for 40 sec. Then the
Script menu pops down. I would call that unusable. Proper operation
resumes when the alias is removed.
(If you want to see this for yourself, make an alias to the startup/
library/ folder and put it into your Script menu. Click on the Script
menu ... and wait ... wait ... for 2 min, until the menu drops.)
The other problem with a menu following folder aliases is that the
menu that result is just to big to be useful and it's confusing. It
shows way too much information. With my menu folder it also shows way
too little information, since the folders that my aliases point to
contain important information in a couple of list view columns that
are not shown in the menu. It's better that my user open the outer
folder, then navigate to sub-folders.
There is no way to decide this without breaking someone's
functionality, so there needs to be a means of doing it either way.
And add "Comment" to the sort order.
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