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Does Panther still do this...?
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I hate the way that you can have two separate items highlighted; in this case, if I wanted to open my HD I would in fact open the folder. There is no way of telling which one is active, which sucks. Is this still the case in Panther?
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It's possible to see the difference between an active and inactive selection on the desktop in Panther.
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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yes (in answer to willed's question)
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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Originally posted by Developer:
It's possible to see the difference between an active and inactive selection on the desktop in Panther.
if the window is active, the window's selection is active. it's easy and it makes sense to boot.
-r.
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Look closer:
You can tell that the Window is foremost below, because the widgets are lit-up and the selected file's text label is highlighted in your selection colour.
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When the item on the desktop is selected it has the coloured label and the other window is inactive.
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It should also be noted that keeping selections in inactive windows is a useful feature. Say I have a bunch of files I want to copy around. I can select them first, and ten go to find the place I want to copy them - the selection will stay active in the original window.
However, it's nice that Panther clarifies the active selection even more - I hadn't noticed it did that. Nice job, Apple!
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Originally posted by diamondsw:
It should also be noted that keeping selections in inactive windows is a useful feature.
I just HATED the way OS 9 deselected everything as soon as you touched another window 
Thank goodness that's changed now 
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Originally posted by Dale Sorel:
I just HATED the way OS 9 deselected everything as soon as you touched another window
Thank goodness that's changed now
Count me in this group, also. I love the fact that I can now copy things to my network without having to re-select the stuff I wanted to copy.
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Originally posted by Dale Sorel:
I just HATED the way OS 9 deselected everything as soon as you touched another window
Thank goodness that's changed now
Actually, I didn't hate the way OS 9 does it....I do now though!  Back when I was using OS 9 every day, that was the way things worked and I was perfectly happy with it. Since using OS X every day, I now hate the way OS 9 does it. As with lots of things , the OS X way makes much more sense.
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