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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug Desktop
When renaming any file on the desktop and using the "Show Desktop" feature of Exposé, the name field for the file will fly out to the side like any regular application window. Quick procedure to reproduce:
  1. Press F11
  2. Command-tab to the Finder
  3. Click once on a desktop file to select it.
  4. Press Enter to rename the selected file on the desktop
  5. Without pressing Enter, hit F11 twice
Really useless and kind of stupid ... hopefully someone can/has reported this to Apple.

[robg adds: We don't normally run bugs as hints, but this one's actually kinda funny. For those of you who don't have Panther, I made a very short movie showing the effect. Hopefully they'll squash this one in a minor update sometime soon...]
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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: network23 on May 11, '04 12:43:21PM

Funny. It happens everywhere you can rename a file. You don't need to F11 before seeing this bug. I was able to see a file on my desktop, click on it to rename it, and then hit F11 to see the name field fly off the screen. I was even able to get it to happen in a Finder window! Just choose a file in a finder window and hit return to rename it, then hit F11 to see it fly off the edge of the screen independent of the Finder window!

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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: spfolly on May 16, '04 06:44:20AM

How about this for freaky behaviour - you can even continue editing the filename while it's flying off the screen. (Shift-F11 to see this more clearly).



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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: macevangelist on May 11, '04 01:59:08PM

I filed that bug with Apple on Nov 17, 2003. The state is "Open/Analyze" which means according to Apple:

If your bug is in Analyze State, your bug has been received by Apple and is in queue for review or your bug is currently being reviewed.

I guess not enough people reported the bug or it would have been fixed by now. If you want to relate to my bug report, it's:

Problem ID: 3485849
Problem Title: Finder's file-name box gets Exposé-d



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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: tim1724 on May 11, '04 05:52:35PM

I filed a bug report on September 4 on one of the developer seeds .. so you aren't the only one to report the bug to Apple.

I think this has been fixed in the upcoming 10.3.4 release, however.

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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: krishna on May 14, '04 12:52:12AM

Hell, I'd like to know how you got the bug number. That's one thing that's been keeping me from filing a lot of bugs -- I can't track them after they've been filed.



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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: macevangelist on May 14, '04 08:51:43PM

It sounds like you filed the bugs through Mac OS X's UI like in Safari's menu "Report bugs to Apple..."

If you sign up at the Apple Developer website then you'll have access to the Bug Reporter there. When you file a bug with that service you'll have the ability to review all the bugs you sent to Apple.

Please note that there's a reason you have to sign up with Apple as a developer first. They might ask you to provide them with additional information like logs and samples. The latter you can only generate when you have the Developer Tools installed.

If you want to sign up, the starting point would be here:
http://developer.apple.com/membership/online.html

The ADC (Apple Developer Connection) Online Membership is totally free and requires a valid eMail address.



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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: rossr on May 11, '04 02:10:10PM

I discovered a similar behavior in Camino.

If you go to a web site that shows a 'tool-tip' when you hover over a link, then hit any of the Exposé keys, the 'tool-tip' box apparently counts as a a 'window' and will fly around with the other windows. :) It is quite funny.

This 'tool-tip-window-exposé' behavior occurs in Safari when you 'hide all windows' (f11).



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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: woodgie on May 12, '04 04:51:57AM

My tupp'orth is that it must be something to do with the way the 'selected' name is treated by the graphics layer. Maybe, when it's in it's live, editable state then the graphics system treats it as a window, and therefore flies around the screen. When it's not live it gets treated as part of the icon it's attached to.

As I said, just a guess.



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Did you remember the initial MacOSX 10.1 Finder Behaviour?
Authored by: juanfc on May 12, '04 09:11:06AM

I thought that when the small edit box go over the rest of the windows Apple was giving us the opportunity of edit that name without needing to hide the other applications.. A feature, not a bug, I thought. Now it seems the people there are getting problems with this edit box!

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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: cparnot on May 12, '04 05:12:31PM

try it with shift-F9/F10, it fades away nicely... it is interesting that it is not recognized the same way by the F11

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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: Llwybyr on May 12, '04 09:04:07PM

I'm running 10.3.3 and I'm not seeing this behavoir at all. So, are any of you that are seeing this running 10.3.3 or are you still behind the curve on updates?



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Demonstrate a file renaming Exposé bug
Authored by: NarratorDan on May 13, '04 05:01:24AM

I'm currently running 10.3.3 and I do get the same behavior. But I was able to activate it just by clicking on the icon name (which sets it up for editing) and then activating Exposé

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