If I need to sort on demand, I can simply type Command 2 to access list view and then click on the column by which I'd like to sort. That is, if the images are very similar with subtle differences, I can relatively quickly find the state I'm looking for by scanning for changes using Cover Flow and scrolling left or right. When I'm in the directory I want, I then can choose Cover Flow view and use it to navigate a directory containing thousands of images to find the image that I want.
The ability to rapidly switch modes means I can, for example, use column view to drill down into deeply nested directories that contain thousands of automatically generated screenshots. Command 1 for icon view, Command 2 for list view, Command 3 for column view, and Command 4 Cover Flow. I don't care how it's written it's gotten steadily less usable with every iteration.Īs you may know, the presentation mode for macOS Finder windows and tabs can rapidly be changed. I wish they would give ANY love to the finder at this point. Why not just use launchpad as the desktop? Does anyone actually use their desktop to store often accessed files, or is it just a replacement for ~/Documents at this point? I have no idea how people can work with either icons or no ability to switch up the sorting on demand-I don't think I've used my desktop except as basically a "tmp" folder for screenshots in years. It's just a recipe to PREVENT easy access to your data-how can they allow dragging icons out of the view or overlapping each other? You can't even "reload" to reset their location, and people can even send you ZIPPED FILES where the locations are broken. DS_store and _MACOSX absurdities) and force everything to use three-column layout, I would in a heartbeat. If I could completely disable that (along with the. This-along with the rest of the 2d layout-is my absolute least favorite aspect of the finder. > From small details (like EVERY window remembering exactly how you arranged it) I especially miss the huge contextual menu ecosystem that OS9 had. > not to mention the pop-up tab windows from 8.5+.įinder Drawers! I miss them too. And one of Apple's own flagship apps, iTunes, is such a user-surly, confused mess of UI mistakes it's hardly usable. how many re-skinnings? How many optional app UI kits? Do you remember the brushed aluminium one that was popular for a minute? Remember all of their one-off, over the top, skeuomorphic apps? Now Chrome can get all fucky with the title bar and no one even notices. OS9 had Platinum, and it was the standard, and third party apps that didn't fall in line, really stuck out in an uncomplimentary way and collected a lot of flack. > I don’t quite understand why Apple went so far away from Platinum.įor the purpose of looking cool in a demo. > They are 100% correct about the spatial Finder 15 years later and what the current OS has is still laughable compared to some of the gems of the Classic Finder.Īnd every version that comes out, the Finder moves further away from spacial and towards a disk browser.
It would have been better to combine the vibrancy technology with more professional user interface elements reminiscent of Classic. While I do like the “vibrancy” effect in parts of the current OS, even that is overdone (scrolling under toolbars, really?). They “almost” had it when 10.5 Leopard managed to unify most of the OS and apps but then they started fiddling again. Today’s toolbar icons and buttons are downright ugly compared to the UI that was achieved with far fewer colors on Classic Macs.
From small details (like EVERY window remembering exactly how you arranged it) to not having to wonder what will happen when you click something, not to mention the pop-up tab windows from 8.5+.Īlso, to this day I don’t quite understand why Apple went so far away from Platinum. You sort of have to experience the Classic Finder to understand just how wrong the modern Finder really is. A few years back Steve Jobs had the audacity to describe some Cocoa rewrite as a “whole new Finder” and I got excited only to realize it was still garbage. They are 100% correct about the spatial Finder 15 years later and what the current OS has is still laughable compared to some of the gems of the Classic Finder.