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Explaining the Finder's view options and toolbar visibility
Authored by: GaelicWizard on Mar 07, '03 08:35:30PM
Re: Explaining the Finder's view options and toolbar visibility
Authored by: eo on Mar 07, '03 10:23:45PM
Second that! Never have I felt the need for such an explanation of how Path Finder handles various situations.

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Well PathFinder has UI glitches too
Authored by: janpeeters on Mar 08, '03 07:20:34AM

Illogical for example is that you can't decide where to place your icons on a desktop when you have align to grid 'on'. It just places them by name e.g. on the right side of the screen. Why isn't there something inbetween. I get crazy if I can't place my icons grouped per categorie on my screen but snapped on a grid.

Next problem is the dropdown folders in column view, why use columnview (which is horizontal) if you want folders to drop down in the same column (which is vertical). Give that option a modifier key but not by default.

Besides that the anti-aliasing on the desktop is crapy compared to Apple's antialiasing.

For the rest a great app, but sure they have to build in more customization options.

Jan Peeters



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Well PathFinder has UI glitches too
Authored by: GaelicWizard on Mar 09, '03 06:43:06PM

Finder: Won't change unless Steve wants it to.
Path Finder: Got complaints? E-Mail them to the author! He'll fix it!

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Pell



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Well PathFinder has UI glitches too
Authored by: Ptero-4 on Nov 08, '05 08:26:05PM

Actually the Finder iss good for "browser" mode but craps out when you try to use it in spatial mode. Path Finder have a better spatial/browser mode selector (it doesn't swap modes randomly). But PathFinder have some glitches. It's CD burner is crap and at anything past 2x is a sure coaster, it's archiver is as crap as the Finder one (it doesn't treat archives as folders, which Allume Zip Magic and Konqueror's built-in archiver do) and it's go a bug that if you set PF to spatial mode, the view to icon view and tell it to open each folder in a new window, when you doubleclick in a folder its window opens behind it's parent folder window. If I were you I would install Konqueror b/c Apple will never fix the Finder and M$ in the name of "piracy prevention" patched cocoa to put intentional bugs that would make building an spatial filebrowser imposible (the folder view bug in PF is caused by those bugs placed by M$ in cocoa). The reason for this is to make OS X seem crap for the users (remember that OS X lacks a start menu and since this means that the users is goin; to have to use the filemanager a lot obviously M$ is goin' against everything that makes the OS X filemanager.)



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