On 2010-07-22 20:11 , Adam Maas wrote:
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.
one can be familiar with Finder (to help others) _and_ use other tools
Unfortunately OS X seems to be stuck in the paradigm that pervasive search is an adequate replacement for a decent file manager.
i don't see any sense of replacement, just two complementary paradigms, and i don't feel Finder is indecent -- QuickLook, for one, is a fantastic feature; i disliked Spotlight for a long time, but being able to quickly find one email out of hundreds of thousands won me over; i still haven't mastered Spotlight's query language, but given how much i use Google it's only natural to expect the same kind of ability from an OS
Coincidentally it's also the only major OS which has a steady market for replacements file management apps.
first of all, the market for Mac OS X file manager replacements seems rather weak to me; Path Finder (which i have used for years) is really the only major contender, but is a niche player; there are many tools to enhance _navigation_ on Mac OS X, but not so many to enhance _management_
secondly, your statement seems contradicted by the proliferation of GUI file managers on Linux and the fact that there are numerous Windows file manager replacements (though i don't know the market well)
and in a followup message:
The one simple change Apple could do to make Finder more usable is adding an Address Bar with the current folder path in it, bonus if it's clickable
look closer ... it's been there since 2007; of course Path Finder has had it for much longer
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