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On a scale of 0 (least) to 10 (most), how useful is the Finder's customizable Toolbar (the top portion of each Finder window)?
1/1: On a scale of 0 (least) to 10 (most), how useful is the Finder's customizable Toolbar (the top portion of each Finder window)?
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I'm not really sure I understand the point behind this question. Is it that there shouldn't be a toolbar, or that it should have better tools, or that it should be better presented? Anyway, I find the placement of the "Search" tool at the top of each Finder window to be most useful, especially the search "Selection" option.
Search most helpful
In particular, I meant the ability of the toolbar to hold files, folders, and documents, as well as some of the other Apple-provided tools...
Not useful for me but...
For new users I've found it really helps them to have all those options where they can easily find them.
I voted: Undecided
Initially, I used it a lot and every Panther box I configured, I changed the toolbar to meet me requirements, but I find that I use this less and less, and now I'm not convinced that it's all that useful at all. However, having the OPTION to do so is very nice, and that alone should really rate it above a 5/undecided.
Inconsistent Interface
The inconsistent Finder interface is just terrible. The toolbar adds to this inconsistency, making more than just useless... it's annoying.
8/10, I have 2 apps in it
Here's my toolbar.
It's the default (i think) + 2 programs. The first one is a stripped down version of Open Terminal Here, I stripped it down so that it would just open a terminal window without resizing it. The second one is a little applescript to upload selected files to my website, and put urls to the files in my clipboard, specifically, I use it for images, and it uploads them to the images directory of my website. I considered also adding some sort of automatic compression / resizing stuff to it, but I concluded that it would be better to just use an Preview or Graphics Converter to do that because of the variety of size / desired quality of images I generally deal with. (Note that the icon makes sense to me as it would upload to my CS account at RPI
8/10, I have 2 apps in it
Cool. I didn't even know you could do that. It took me a minute to figure out how (trying to drag something from the Dock doesn't work and you have to wait a second before the (+) shows up when dragging an app from the Finder). I can see why an applescript that acts on a file or directory would be well suited for placement there. On the other hand, you could always drag the current directory or file down to the dock, so it's not strictly necessary...
8/10, I have 2 apps in it
I didn't know about this before. I use Open Terminal Here (the Contextual Menu version, not sure where I got if from), but I like the idea of a button in the Finder window.
the real question
how useful is the sidebar?
the real question
Stop jumping ahead -- I was planning on asking about the sidebar in the next poll, so stay tuned! :)
9/10: Use for drag and drop apps, Favorites
The apps I keep in my Finder toolbar are those that I find I want to drop things on--Stuffit Dropstuff, TextEdit, Adobe Reader, Toast, Favorites folder (thanks, Apple, for making the Finder intelligent again about things dropped on the Favorites folder!). I prefer to list locations (volumes, folders) in the sidebar rather than apps. Of course one can argue whether it's better to keep any of these things in the Dock, the sidebar or toolbar of the Finder, or in a third party app like DragThing.
Never use it
I'm a fan of the tool bar in every other app. I prefer the old 10.1 ... 10.2 tool bar. I like the normal window type scheme, not the brushed metal.
Down with Brushed Metal!
I'd more or less forgotten that "brushed metal" was even used in the Finder until looking at a posted snapshot!
It's cusomisable?
Seriously, I had forgotten that. I think I changed the default buttons but I haven't changed them since.
It's cusomisable?
I thank OSX Hints for reminding me that this even exists. I just added all kinds of things to the Finder toolbar. It helps a ton.
The issue(problem?)
Apple, to me, has done a very poor job of documenting the features of finder and everything else. Some of the hints here (I love this site, I've learned alot) should not be necessary. I don't have an answer for the happy medium between the docs I've found from apple and having too much so as to scare new users. |
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