Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Aug 2009 13:07 UTC
We're certainly not done yet with Snow Leopard on OSNews! The operating system will be officially released tomorrow, but that hasn't stopped various news outlets from cranking out reviews of Apple's latest big cat. As usual, thereviewsarefairlyconsistent: this latest release is the best yet. In addition, very welcome news for Tiger users: the Snow Leopard "upgrade" disk can upgrade Tiger installations too, and performs no checks to see if Leopard is installed.
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but since they bothered to rewrite it I came to realize the sad fact that they thought it was OK.
It is OK. And I would be very sad if those ugly Windows Explorer annoyances pop up on OS X just to make some switchers happy: E. g.
- ENTER to rename is way better than F2 (Why the hell F2? What's the logic?)
- I don't like to use F5 all the time (again, this shouldn't be necessary at all)
- I don't want that duplicated files are added - out of order - at the bottom of an alphabetically ordered list till you make some actions that restores the order (totally annoying)
- Finders naming behaviour for multiple copies or aliases is way better
- CMD+ARROW DOWN to open a file is a consisten behaviour - it also opens folders and is easy to learn together with all the other CMD + ARROW shortcuts
- I don't like the silly UP behavior of Explorer, that sometimes goes to the parent folder - but somtimes not
- I do like a trash that behaves like a trash no matter if you use a lokal or a server file system (a bug that should have been squashed in Windows a long time ago!)
- I do like when Finder tells me that a file is to large to copy to a destination before it starts
- I do like that Finder is always able to put a file into the trash even if it is locked by a process - unlike Windows, you don't have to search for the process that lockes the file to put it on the hit list to nirvana
- I absolutly don't like Explorers "merge" behaviour when copying/pasting folders (you never know what will be merged in deeper levels of that folder hierarchy and it get's really ugly, if the copy job suddenly stops because it hits a locked file or a disk full or ..)
- ..
Agreed that it would be nice to have some additional features in Finder like compressed archive browsing or a decent built-in FTP client. But frankly, I don't miss that very often. There are good tools which are - thanks to spotlight - only a few keystrokes away. However I miss Finder when having to work with Windows Explorer ..
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It is OK. And I would be very sad if those ugly Windows Explorer annoyances pop up on OS X just to make some switchers happy: E. g.
- ENTER to rename is way better than F2 (Why the hell F2? What's the logic?)
- I don't like to use F5 all the time (again, this shouldn't be necessary at all)
- I don't want that duplicated files are added - out of order - at the bottom of an alphabetically ordered list till you make some actions that restores the order (totally annoying)
- Finders naming behaviour for multiple copies or aliases is way better
- CMD+ARROW DOWN to open a file is a consisten behaviour - it also opens folders and is easy to learn together with all the other CMD + ARROW shortcuts
- I don't like the silly UP behavior of Explorer, that sometimes goes to the parent folder - but somtimes not
- I do like a trash that behaves like a trash no matter if you use a lokal or a server file system (a bug that should have been squashed in Windows a long time ago!)
- I do like when Finder tells me that a file is to large to copy to a destination before it starts
- I do like that Finder is always able to put a file into the trash even if it is locked by a process - unlike Windows, you don't have to search for the process that lockes the file to put it on the hit list to nirvana
- I absolutly don't like Explorers "merge" behaviour when copying/pasting folders (you never know what will be merged in deeper levels of that folder hierarchy and it get's really ugly, if the copy job suddenly stops because it hits a locked file or a disk full or ..)
- ..
Agreed that it would be nice to have some additional features in Finder like compressed archive browsing or a decent built-in FTP client. But frankly, I don't miss that very often. There are good tools which are - thanks to spotlight - only a few keystrokes away. However I miss Finder when having to work with Windows Explorer ..