What are these things?

[GigaWire]

What are these 4 dots in the bottom left corner of all finder windows?

[Maritan]

It tells you that the finder is in the grid view, as opposed to details view and list view.

[Mr. Anderson]

Actually that's 'Keep Arranged By'

The grid formatting icon looks like this....

D

[virividox]

hey i didnt know that, hehe personally i wouldnt have posted, i would have just clicked and found out hehe

but thanks for pointing it out

[mkrishnan]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Actually that's 'Keep Arranged By'

The grid formatting icon looks like this....

D

I get the four squares icon in view / "as icons," but I don't see grid view. What's that? When I check view options with no window selected, I can make the desktop snap to grid, but I don't see the icon you showed as a result.

More to the point, what does it do differently in the finder window?

And semi-OT, which mode do people use most -- as icons, list, or columns? I always liked list mode from the old MacOS, although sometimes columns is handy.

On Windows though, I usually use small icons (list) and set it to open subsequent folders in the same window....

[cubist]

Originally posted by mkrishnan
... And semi-OT, which mode do people use most -- as icons, list, or columns? I always liked list mode from the old MacOS, although sometimes columns is handy. ...

I use list view all the time now.

I used to like icon view, but so few icons fit in a window, and it seems like they're always jumbled.

Might switch to column view, tho. Can you drag a file from the right-hand side and drop it on a different folder in one of the the middle columns?

[mkrishnan]

Originally posted by cubist
Might switch to column view, tho. Can you drag a file from the right-hand side and drop it on a different folder in one of the the middle columns?

Yes, you can. I really like the way Finder implements popping up other folders if you try to put things into them... like if you put a folder in the left-hand tray, then if you drag something over to it and hold it there, it will temporarily open in a separate window and then let you sub-navigate, and then go away when it's finished with. Now if only there was a "/.." entry in the folder so you could use this trick to move to a folder up....:rolleyes:

[abhishekit]

move a folder up....hmmm..that wd be neat

[GigaWire]

Originally posted by virividox
hey i didnt know that, hehe personally i wouldnt have posted, i would have just clicked and found out hehe

but thanks for pointing it out

Really? What does yours do when you click on it, 'cause mine does nothing at all.