t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu (03/02/91)
I want to make a few last requests to be added to Finder 7 before it ships. I love the new Finder but it is still a little rough in a couple of spots. I believe these changes could be made without having to include them in any documention other than to add them to the Finder Shortcut menu dialogs. Most people don't read the manual #1 - Pop up the appropriate help balloon when the option-shift keys are down and the balloon help is off. This makes getting help in single instances much more friendly. #2 - Option-shift-drag to copy an alias of the selected file to the location dragged to. I find I am constantly creating an alias, dragging a copy to the location I want, and then deleting the origional. #3 - Add one more click shortcut to the "List" views. Put a small icon on the left of the row where the other column headings are that can be clicked on. Clicking there would switch to an icon view. And conversely in the "Icon" view put a "List" icon which you could click in to switch to the list view. #4 - Add one more checkbox to the Icon section of the "Views" control panel. That item is: "Show file info in header" This would work very similar to the "Show disk info in header" checkbox in the List section. In the Icon views it would display file information in the window header when you clicked on a file. For multiple files selected it would give you some summary information like how many files, how many nested folders, how big is the total selection, etc. For single file selections you don't need to display the name because you see it with the icon. You could display size, kind, date, and version. That would fit in the average window size. #5 - WHERE'S THE CREDITS???? For golley-gee-sakes Gomer, there must be a bunch of wonderfully talented people who have worked on the System and Finder. Why not let us know who they are? You managed to do it right in HyperCard 2.0. Don't you folks talk to each other or have any kinds of standards for things like that? Tony Jacobs Center for Engineering Design University of Utah t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu PS - Folks, if you like these suggestions, lets hears so. Better still let Apple know!
francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) (03/02/91)
In article <1991Mar1.212808.20312@fcom.cc.utah.edu> t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu writes: #2 - Option-shift-drag to copy an alias of the selected file to the location dragged to. I find I am constantly creating an alias, dragging a copy to the location I want, and then deleting the origional. Naive question time: can't you create the alias and just drag it? -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/
bskendig@set.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (03/02/91)
In article <FRANCIS.91Mar1192348@arthur.uchicago.edu> francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >In article <1991Mar1.212808.20312@fcom.cc.utah.edu> t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu writes: >>#2 - Option-shift-drag to copy an alias of the selected file to the location >>dragged to. I find I am constantly creating an alias, dragging a copy to the >>location I want, and then deleting the origional. > >Naive question time: can't you create the alias and just drag it? Yes, but nine out of ten times I find myself doing the following: - Select the file and hit "Make Alias". - Drag the alias to a new location. - Click on the alias name, wait for my SE to acknowledge the click, and remove the word "alias". Now, this process would be made much more effortless (?) if I could just: - Hold down shift-option and drag the file to a new location to alias it. In fact, I can't think of any cases where you'd actually want there to be an alias of a file in the same exact folder as the original file; in this regard, the effect of "Make Alias" is a bit less useful than the effect of "Duplicate File", even though "Duplicate File" lets you achieve the same thing by option-dragging while there's no shortcut for "Make Alias". Just an ounce of user-friendliness... ;) << Brian >> | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "It's not that I don't have the work to *do* -- I don't do the work I *have*."
fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry) (03/03/91)
In article <1991Mar1.212808.20312@fcom.cc.utah.edu> t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu writes: >I want to make a few last requests to be added to Finder 7 before it ships. I >love the new Finder but it is still a little rough in a couple of spots. I >believe these changes could be made without having to include them in any >documention other than to add them to the Finder Shortcut menu dialogs. Most >people don't read the manual > ... >#2 - Option-shift-drag to copy an alias of the selected file to the location >dragged to. I find I am constantly creating an alias, dragging a copy to the >location I want, and then deleting the origional. Yes, definitely. I think this problem can be quite annoying. David Fry fry@math.harvard.EDU Department of Mathematics fry@huma1.bitnet Harvard University ...!harvard!huma1!fry Cambridge, MA 02138