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samslaves · 07:11 AM

1. Apple could have simply provided a button in the old toolbar to show/hide a drawer like in Mail.app. The drawer will be shown to the left or right depending window screen position; more, a prefs flag to show persistently the finder drawer. Now we are forced to have a left column that we can only resize by width.

2. This f***ing matallic theme is annoying. XP comes from Lego, but Mac OS X from Thyssen Krupp heavy industries now!

Sam

JKT · Oct 31, 2003, 05:50 AM

B I G F S C K I N G Y A W N

Diggory Laycock · Oct 31, 2003, 07:02 AM

That dimple is a button - double-clicking it will hide the sidebar.

sniffer · 07:31 AM

I am not surprised if some know how on GUI design point out it doesn't exactly follow recommended standards for UI design, at least that's how I feel. But it works very elegant with the workflow, and the way column view works, it makes perfectly sense to have the quick link widget on the left. And it makes no practically sense to be able to scroll vertically behind the "nearest widget link" (I don't know what to call it) in Panther Finder.
About the brushed thing. It seems like Steve is very keen on the idea. It have improved a lot since the brushed QT in OS 9. Personally I like the Aqua-cocoa look better (aka in Mail, and OmniWeb), but the brushed isn't exactly the end of the world either.
If you feel you need alternatives, the Milk theme by Max, have a very elegant white replacement for the standard brushed Aqua look. Thought the last time I used that theme, it was in Jag, and brushed carbon apps was not affected by the theme. But Safari and several other apps looked really sleek and sexy in that theme.

Angus_D · Oct 31, 2003, 07:31 AM

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:

That dimple is a button - double-clicking it will hide the sidebar.

Actually you can double-click any of the splitter in order to hide it.

DVD Plaza · Nov 1, 2003, 01:17 AM

Shame you can't double click the brushed metal to hide the brushed metal - I'd rather have a "poo" theme than a "metal" theme.

And yet they create an awesome looked brushed metal on iTunes for Windows... ironic...

clarkgoble · Nov 1, 2003, 01:34 AM

Someone actually ripping the UI of the Finder by suggesting the worst and most abused UI atrocity: the drawer. Sort of kills the argument right there...

Developer · 03:05 PM

Originally posted by clarkgoble:
Someone actually ripping the UI of the Finder by suggesting the worst and most abused UI atrocity: the drawer. Sort of kills the argument right there...

The drawer is bad almost all the time, but for the preview in the Finder it would work well. With a drawer preview would work in all view styles (icon and list view, not only column view) and clicking on a file in column view wouldn't move it away under the mouse cursor any more.

clarkgoble · Dec 3, 2003, 02:59 PM

I actually agree. I almost always hate the drawer but think that Path Finder's use for a preview pane is very nice -- far nicer than the way the Finder does it.