Have you tried Path Finder? Tabs are great. It makes moving files around easier. No more making another window just to move stuff.
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Anyone else think Snow Leopard... sucks?
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Have you tried Path Finder? Tabs are great. It makes moving files around easier. No more making another window just to move stuff.
Yes. I LOVE pathfinder. I just don't want finder to be pathfinder. I think Apple made a big mistake making the default file interface non-spatial. It's fine to have something like pathfinder for advanced users, but as someone who works with non-computer experts a lot, I can tell you they have a hard time with even the current finder.
I've never understood the big deal with making a separate windows, whether in Finder, Safari, or anything else. I actually prefer separate windows to tabs, as you can Exposé them. But why is making another tab so much better than making another window?
B) This part is not difficult. If you click once, the whole file is selected. If you click again, the name field gets selected and you can rename..etc. If you copy when the name is selected, you copy the name. If you copy when the file is selected, you copy the file.
C) If textedit does not support embedded files, then dont make anything happen. If its a program that supports embedding of files such as an email application (ie new mail message windows) then do paste the file in the window. Same would go for your FTP application. Basically anything supporting dragging and dropping of files should support what we're talking about here.
I dont really think its that confusing or even inconsistent. I'm sure people were not horrified and confused when they had to drag CDs to the trash to eject it. They just learned thats how it was done. I mean dragging a disk icon (if its CD, or some other mounted media) didnt make sense in old versions of MacOS before the trash icon would change to an eject icon but people still managed to use the computer
C) If textedit does not support embedded files, then dont make anything happen. If its a program that supports embedding of files such as an email application (ie new mail message windows) then do paste the file in the window. Same would go for your FTP application. Basically anything supporting dragging and dropping of files should support what we're talking about here.
I dont really think its that confusing or even inconsistent. I'm sure people were not horrified and confused when they had to drag CDs to the trash to eject it. They just learned thats how it was done. I mean dragging a disk icon (if its CD, or some other mounted media) didnt make sense in old versions of MacOS before the trash icon would change to an eject icon but people still managed to use the computer
Agreed. Seems like many people here want Apple to put the Pathfinder devs out of business. Why not buy pathfinder if thats what you want Finder to work like, otherwise use the current finder?
Tabs make it look like you have less clutter. Also, at first glance you can see everything you have open without using exposé. Having said that, I don't mind opening new finder windows.
Because as great as Path Finder is, I can't come to use it because there is no way to fully replace it with the Finder, and I find having the two coexisting to be cumbersome. But that was back when PF was at v. 4, maybe it's better now?
to those complaining about 64-bit kernel.
http://www.9to5mac.com/snow-leopard-64-bit-32-bit-firmware-efi
http://www.9to5mac.com/snow-leopard-64-bit-32-bit-firmware-efi
You'd be happy if Apple implemented the feature but named
it "remove" rather than "cut"?
You either remove an item from the computer (Trash), or you move it to a different location. Cut makes no sense.
I don't think SL sucks at all. As you said, Open CL. Also some new UI perks. Faster. Oh, and its only $30 freaking dollars. My god, the complainers here.
So what are we saying here? Apple can't implement this incredibly
useful feature because they can't think of a good name for it? ;-)
No. I think Move should exist. I think the name scheme of Cut is stupid. If I ever need to Move, I just bust out my Terminal kung fu.
So would you wish that apple rename the 'cut' and 'paste' functions which are already implemented for text? I mean you cant really cut or paste something in a digital environment. Maybe it should be 'remove' and 'put it here'
For the same reason that spacial finders are annoying: You get a bunch of windows all over the place when you need to move stuff to different places. If Apple doesn't do tabs, there should at least be a drop stack, like Path Finder.
And ideally, Expose would work with tabs, especially in Safari (there's an addon that does this.)
Yes I do. Thanks for letting me reiterate that point.
Let the fanboy rationale and logic begin.
That leaves only one answer - they're idiots.
Because windows doesn't have a stupid finder menu hanging around the desktop just in case you're too lazy to use the context menu.
What... pressing 2 keys simultaneously is more efficient than pressing a single key? What is Apple so afraid of that we must be protected from accidentally pressing the dreaded ENTER key all by its self? I'm beginning to think all this forced mouse usage is their strategy for making their keyboards last longer.
Implement cut/paste for files and you wouldn't have to do this any more.
That is incorrect. QuickTransit (the real name of Rosetta) is x86 code, but all the libraries loaded by a PPC app have to be provided by the OS, and they are PPC code. That is why Rosetta is an on-demand install feature: To install all those PPC libraries.
Nice adaptation of Fat for 64/32-bit x86 apps, BTW.
Yes, my point was that merely having a cross-platform OS doesn't mean there is a speed penalty. PPC apps that went Universal don't run slower on either PPC or Intel as a result of being Universal, as opposed to 'thin.' The same is true in the OS itself. Only one code stream is being loaded and run on any given system. (Excepting when you are doing Rosetta). To any one who disagrees, I point out that OS X is still very much a cross platform system; the systems are now x86, AMD64, and ARM.
They are smaller, but they are no less bloated, because they don't run any faster when you strip out one architecture. Removing 'bloat', by definition, would have an impact on performance. If the performance isn't impacted, it isn't bloat.