You better, they will never fix it. They want Finder to wither away.
― lukas, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not trolling, i genuinely like it -- what do y'all dislike about it?
― markers, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
You know, it's so long since I used the Finder for anything serious that I'm having trouble remembering all the things I hate about it. I do all my file operations through Nautilus on an Ubuntu box.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
markers, read the siracusa reviews
― caek, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
actually he wrote an article just about it
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/04/finder.ars
― caek, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:20 (thirteen years ago) link
(it's gotten worse since then)
― caek, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's a few off the top of my head:
- nowhere near enough in the way of hotkeys- new finder windows default to the "all my files" thing- display options are (a) an outline list (b) that horrible grid thing (c) big icons- dragging a file intermittently selects a list of files instead- ejecting a USB drive closes the finder window without asking- basically it's made for people who don't use computers
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
- display options are (a) an outline list (b) that horrible grid thing (c) big icons
(d) cover flow, which makes nought sense in a file system most of the time
the worst is when I do expose and find out I have like 25 finder windows open
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 windows file manager though
w/ the new lion finder I look at my sidebar and I have no idea which is my dropbox folder and which is my photos folder and which is my downloads folder, it's all a big glob of grey
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, win explorer is the greatest xp
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:39 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys know that windows is going to totally fuck up the default view in Win 8, right? :)
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone use pathfinder?
― forced to change display name (gbx), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the vista/7 finder thingy sucks, xp windows explorer was classic, 95/98 file manager was classicer
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
shit I am being rockist about windows I need to *take a step back*
- new finder windows default to the "all my files" thing
mine doesn't. Maybe "always open in list view" in view prefs?
I'm confused. Icon size is adjustable. There's even a little slider in the finder window. Been that way since Snow Leopard.
- dragging a file intermittently selects a list of files instead
not for me.
- ejecting a USB drive closes the finder window without asking
it closes the finder window displaying the content of the USB drive, but not other windows.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw a toolbar on the Win8 Explorer and threw up for 12 minutes
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw a toolbar RIBBON on the Win8 Explorer and threw up for 12 minutes
is what I meant
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
- dragging a file intermittently selects a list of files insteadnot for me.
i think he's talking about this
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051121074003638
― caek, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
drag too quickly and you extend the selection, kind of like if you click a second time to edit a file name you actually double click
it's not a finder thing, it's a mac thing
― caek, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Until it acts like OS 9 finder (complete w/drawers and stationery pads that work) it is dead to me
― stet, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
so in full screen mode, if I fling my mouse cursor to the top (where those infinite pixels are) and let it rest there, the menu bar pops down. but if I fling my cursor down to the bottom (where my dock is hiding), I have to keep on continuing downward movement in order to get the dock to come up. yeah?
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa i just hit the worg key command and my shit went buck, the dashboard editing mode came up behind everything so that the add widget viewer was on the bottom of the screen but the active widgets were behind chrome w/only their little x's for removal showing AND i was in some weird fullscreen mode where the top menu bar was hidden - i got really confused, mashed my keyboard and ended up restarting
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf that was terrifying
something similar happened to me last week after I exited a vid chat in ichat, had to hold the power button down
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
YOU WERE STARING IN2 TH MAINFRAME
― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i was just in terminal trying to rip out the fuckin google talk plugin
i did not succeed
― markers, Monday, 3 October 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
rm . . . de
― markers, Monday, 3 October 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
sudo rm -fr /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
― jeff tWEEDy (diamonddave85), Monday, 3 October 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ty!
― markers, Monday, 3 October 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
the special characters window is more useful x1000
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
now i can edit the id3 tags for princes Sign ☮ The Times with ease
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
lol
any other tips? i'm just getting my way around it. this is the first time i've really used gestures and they are awesome. i want gestures for EVERYTHING, like window closing, for instance. switching tabs. etc
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
if you flip off your mac it detects it using FaceTime™ and formats itself...wasting all of your data
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Guys I realize this marks me out as tremendously pedestrian but I like Launchpad... a LOT
Mainly because of the sleek fucking little gesture used to invoke it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol i turned that shit off
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
I love Launchpad. I don't have a touchpad, but I assigned F1 to it and put all my key applications on the first page. This is useful for me because I keep my dock hidden. So I just hit F1 and select whatever needs opening.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
I use Spotlight to launch most apps :/
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
I hate spotlight
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
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http://virturl.com/pile/art/faces/disgust.jpg
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
btw Launchpad is fiddly and ill-thought out and woefully inconsistent and disgustingly savage
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
Once again, AA, we have to disagree, because something that works perfectly fine and simply for me is frustrating to you.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
The thing I don't get about hating Spotlight is that it's completely and totally out of your way unless you need it (although so is Launchpad now that I think about it)
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
I initially hated spotlight because it's key command conflicted with very basic Adobe key commands, then because it's indexing took forever. Now I just don't need it...because I don't have to search for things if I already know where they are.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
gestures are incredibly useful. they nullify most of the shit i would use keyboard shortcuts to do. mission control is also key. i tried really hard to drink the spaces/expose kool-aid but that drug just wasn't working. the double-tap gesture for mc on my magic mouse is freakin delightful. launchpad is useful when i need it. i mostly use spotlight for launching tho.
its been hard to parse whats good about what bc I'm coming off of 6 yrs on a G4, now on an i7. I'm pretty overwhelmed.
app store is kinda clutch. I'm glad i can give 99¢ to the developer of I Love Stars w/ two clicks. über universal apps would be good so i don't have to buy pages twice.
tighter integration w/ iOS would be good. like being able to move anything from one to the other.
i have a feeling that apples going to rule the 21st century.
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
I initially hated spotlight because it's key command conflicted with very basic Adobe key commands, then because it's indexing took forever.
Ah, I see what you mean. You can change the keyboard shortcut iirc, and I think you can even reduce the indexing by telling it to not index anything.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
I've done both.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
i tried really hard to drink the spaces/expose kool-aid but that drug just wasn't working.
I've done away with Spaces altogether, which I HATED doing because I've been using virtual desktops for maybe 15 years. I have a few apps in full screen mode but it's a compromise, and if ever I want to e.g. drag music into itunes I have to un-full screen it.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Just on Spotlight, I use it for everything all the time because I'm a hacky terminal user from way back, and find it easier and faster to type part of the name of something than go looking for it in folders/menus (although I do recognise that that's just me)
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link