Re: Tracking files the right way
Re: Tracking files the right way
- Subject: Re: Tracking files the right way
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:29:26 -0400
On Friday, Aug 30, 2002, at 18:35 US/Eastern, Rosyna wrote:
This situation is fixed by launching the app directly from the Finder
itself. Once that is done, the Dock icon is reconnected to the app
as at the point in the filesystem where the user (or at least I)
expect.
I believe, the situation can also be fixed by emptying the trash.
Hmm, I've always experienced the exact opposite ;)
As was pointed out in a private conversation, the drag-drop-replace
style of copying, say, OmniWeb to upgrade a previous version does not
actually end up with the legacy version in the trash. Still doesn't
work correctly-- the dock icon still does not cause the app to launch--
but the behavior was different than I described.
Launching the app *generally* "fixes" the dock icon -- but not always.
At the moment, I cannot launch OmniWeb from the dock though it works
fine from the Finder and causes the same dysfunctional icon to bounce
and select the app once running. Go figure.
Another bugreport.apple.com visit is obviously required. :-)
When you say this, do you file there or is it a suggestion?
I'll file there eventually -- I keep a .rtfd file on my dock that
contains a slew of bugs and feature requests that I need to file. When
I have a moment, I file them all in one pass. It is a RTFD document
so that I can include screen shots (shift-cmd-4, hold down ctrl while
you make selection, past into bug report document, done) and easily
copy/paste into Mail as an attachment to the bug report.
Personally, I file many, many, many bugreports against
bugreport.apple.com -- but I try to stay away from totally trivial crap
unless it is really well considered totally trivial crap. As well, I
always try to include a screen shot and always include the OS build #
and the dev tools build #s along with the specific version # of the app
in question if it is not covered by those build #s.
All in all, I have to say that the folks behind bugreport.apple.com
absolutely rock.
At this point, I have filed somewhere north of 100 bugs in the last six
months with another 20 or so in the queue. Of the 200+ bugs filed
against version of the OS prior to the last six months, every
legitimate bug has either been fixed or has been superseded by other
functionality.
From this, it has become abundantly clear that Apple expends a lot of
effort sorting through the feedback spewed through the bugreporting
mechanisms and actually directs OS development accordingly.
b.bum
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