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adamberti · May 8, 2003, 01:36 PM

I just figured this out a few minutes ago and I've never seen or heard of it before. Nor does it seem useful in anyway. If you open a folder in the finder with Command-shift-O, it will make a new window so you can keep the old window open (ok so its kind of useful), but it opens really slooooooooow. I mean it takes a few seconds and its a really smooth animation and all, but why? Thats all I want to know - why?

JLL · May 8, 2003, 01:42 PM

Originally posted by adamberti:
I just figured this out a few minutes ago and I've never seen or heard of it before. Nor does it seem useful in anyway. If you open a folder in the finder with Command-shift-O, it will make a new window so you can keep the old window open (ok so its kind of useful), but it opens really slooooooooow. I mean it takes a few seconds and its a really smooth animation and all, but why? Thats all I want to know - why?

Zoom rects have been a part of Mac OS for many many years, and they are usually very fast.

The slow effect you see by holding down Shift while opening a folder is (just like Shift clicking the yellow button on a window) just for showing off.

adamberti · May 8, 2003, 02:25 PM

Originally posted by JLL:
Zoom rects have been a part of Mac OS for many many years, and they are usually very fast.

The slow effect you see by holding down Shift while opening a folder is (just like Shift clicking the yellow button on a window) just for showing off.

Yep, me and the zoom rectangles have been good pals for a long time, I forgot the name though! But that slow down, now that I think about it, seems to be a hinderance to its functionality. Like I said it allows you to open a new window - useful now that I know it. At least with the minimize it defaults to fast and the shift is the added effect (which I had no idea you could do, thanks, that is good for showing off

) In this case your only choice is the slow effect. Otherwise it wont open in a new window.

Just another instance of eye-candy before functionality I guess

JLL · May 8, 2003, 02:50 PM

Originally posted by adamberti:
In this case your only choice is the slow effect. Otherwise it wont open in a new window.

Cmd-clicking opens a new window at normal speed.

Perhaps the guy implementing the shortcut for opening a folder in a new window didn't know that shift also slows down the effects

Cipher13 · May 8, 2003, 07:28 PM

Zoom-rects and the non-rect-zoom you see sometimes are just crap. Slow, ugly, pointless.

Guy Incognito 2 · May 8, 2003, 07:41 PM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
Zoom-rects and the non-rect-zoom you see sometimes are just crap. Slow, ugly, pointless.

They provide a visual clue as to which folder the window is popping up from.

But now try to explain why *you're* slow, ugly and pointless.

moonmonkey · May 8, 2003, 07:42 PM

Originally posted by Cipher13:
Zoom-rects and the non-rect-zoom you see sometimes are just crap. Slow, ugly, pointless.

How can you say that, the old zoom rects are crap-very 80s the new window zooming looks great.

Unless you changed the toolbar icons with Candybar and it makes it stutter (like on my iMac700).

You can always turn them of with certain tools.

adamberti · May 9, 2003, 05:41 PM

Originally posted by JLL:
Cmd-clicking opens a new window at normal speed.

Perhaps the guy implementing the shortcut for opening a folder in a new window didn't know that shift also slows down the effects

That is definatly the most logical answer, and I'm sticking with it.

Thanks for the tip on using Cmd to do it at a reasonable speed too!

:XI: · May 9, 2003, 06:43 PM

If you've got one Finder window open and you want another use cmd-n. No shift key needed.

zachs · May 9, 2003, 07:27 PM

Enter the following into Terminal to permanently remove zoom rectangles:

Code:
% defaults write com.apple.finder AnimateWindowZoom -bool false

JLL · May 11, 2003, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by :XI::
If you've got one Finder window open and you want another use cmd-n. No shift key needed.

Cmd-N opens a new window - not a new window with the content of the folder you're cmd-clicking on.

reader50 · May 11, 2003, 02:21 PM

In Finder -> Preferences, you can specify that all folders open in a new window. Afterwards, option-clicking will cause the previous window to close behind you.

Cipher13 · May 11, 2003, 04:26 PM

Originally posted by Guy Incognito 2:
They provide a visual clue as to which folder the window is popping up from.

But now try to explain why *you're* slow, ugly and pointless.

Oh wow, that was intelligent.

A visual clue as to which folder the window is popping up from? So, I suppose you have the memory of a goldfish, and forgot which folder you just double clicked? Moron.

BTW... it shouldn't even really matter WHERE the folder was. It's pretty irrelevant to just about everything. Heh.

theory · May 11, 2003, 10:16 PM

How about when you close a window.
You might ask yourself "I was in my
music folder but was that the one the
CD or the one in my Home folder"
You wouldn't to ask that question because
when the window closed you would have clearly seen where it came from and when it was open you can just command click the title bar.