Apple

On Apr 13, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

This afternoon, I tried for some time to get this to work ...

property prefsRef : alias "OS_X:Users:lutherfuller:Library:Preferences"
tell application "Finder"
activate
set winRef to (window of prefsRef)
set current view of winRef to icon view
ignoring application responses
set visible of column index 7 of list view options of winRef to false -- version -- does not work
set visible of column index 8 of list view options of winRef to true -- comment -- does not work

set uses relative dates of list view options of winRef to false -- OK
set shows icon preview of list view options of winRef to false -- OK

set sort column of list view options of winRef to comment column -- OK
set sort direction of sort column of list view options of winRef to normal -- does not work
end ignoring
set current view of winRef to list view
open winRef
end tell

It works in Leopard, but not in Snow Leopard or Lion. And I have similar code in another application that does work correctly. Then I remembered that the application in which this works is operating on a newly created folder.

Then I remembered that this is a bug that has been around for sometime. And hasn't been fixed YET!

I think it's time we formed a donkey-kicking team. I don't know what a player's equipment should be, but probably anything you have will do. We have to get Apple's attention and nothing, so far, seems to work. Apple seems to be concentrating on iCandy for the next OS and not paying attention to huge growing pile of details.

Then, a few minutes ago, I noticed this ...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/13/app_developers_ask_apple_to_fix_radar_bug_reporting_tool.html

Could this get Apple's attention?

References:
	>Bugs (From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>)