10.5: Smart Folders and the scale icons slider
Dec 05, '07 07:30:06AM
Contributed by: blafusel
I'll never understand why Leopard doesn't have a slider to change the size of the icons/thumbnails when in Icon View mode. Keeping the View Options window open is a workaround, but not very elegant. It turns out that switching to Icon View in a Smart Folder search result offers just such a slider. (I hope Apple just forgot to add that feature to regular folders, and we'll see it soon -- or maybe some fancy terminal command to enable it?)
To reproduce:
- Grab a couple of video files
- Create a Smart Folder search for them
- Switch to Icon View mode
- Enjoy the slider in the lower right of the window!
And like I said, regular Finder windows don't have that feature.
[robg adds: I did a bit of digging with Interface Builder, and you can find the slider in MDResultsView.nib within the Finder bundle. However, I don't think the regular windows are drawn using any of the other .nibs in the Finder's bundle, so I'm not sure where to go from there.]
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