On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> >> On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>> I never use stuff like that. It makes it difficult to help other >>> people when the basics of user experience in a system are changed. >> >> That's very generous of you, Godfrey. When I moved over from Windows I just >> found the Finder to be counter-intuitive to my way of accessing and managing >> files and folders, to the point of finding it extremely frustrating. But my >> understanding is that it really is an enhanced Finder. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Eric Weir > > Finder is quite awful as a filesystem navigation/file management tool, > it remains inferior to the file management UI's on classic Mac OS, KDE > and Gnome, BeOS and any vaguely recent version of Windows. While I can > understand Godfrey's choice not to use a replacement as he needs to be > familiar offhand with the basic Finder UI for professional reasons, I > thoroughly understand why any user who doesn't need to walk others > through basic file mangement steps would quickly move up to a Finder > replacement. > > Unfortunately OS X seems to be stuck in the paradigm that pervasive > search is an adequate replacement for a decent file manager. > Coincidentally it's also the only major OS which has a steady market > for replacements file management apps.
I'm surprised to read that. Perhaps it's all a matter of to what one has become accustomed. I have hundreds of thousands of files organized in Finder, and I can retrieve any of them in moments. On the other hand, I have no idea of how to find a single file on my daughter's PC. It's a mystery. But we certainly don't need another Mac/PC discussion. To each his own. Paul > -Adam > Who actually seriously dislikes pervasive search and disables anything > beyond basic locate on his *NIX machines as well as Indexing on his > Windows machines. The current Macs don't get enough use right now to > waste time disabling Sherlock, but it never gets used either. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
