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The current Finder has both a spacial mode and a browser mode. Unfortunately, the two modes step on each other's toes, making both modes worse. It's been a pr
by thought_alarm 8y ago
The current Finder has both a spacial mode and a browser mode. Unfortunately, the two modes step on each other's toes, making both modes worse. It's been a problem since OS X 10.0, and it persists today.
E.g.:
Navigating around in browser mode clobbers the existing folder view state (window size and position, view mode, etc.). So your folders always seem to lose their view state.
And there's no way to set a preferred browser window size. Instead, it always uses the spacial mode window size and if there is none it uses the hard coded default window size, which is way too small. And, again, as you browse around it clobbers the existing window sizes of other folders.
Create a new folder on the desktop, then double click. You'll get that tiny default browser window. Now navigate up to your home folder. You just clobbered your preferred home folder window size.
The end result is that when you open a Finder window, you never know what you're going to get.
- MiddleEndian 8y agoA distinct difference in behavior is that OS X+ Finder has the ability to view the same folder in multiple windows, which is a necessity if you're going to keep the miller column view. Classic Mac OS Finder did not allow this. Every time you opened a new folder, a new window would open. If you navigated to a folder already open, the previous window would jump to the front. That's how spatial Finder worked so well. It's difficult to combine both these patterns. It's one of the reasons people felt Mac OS "just worked" without necessarily being able to elaborate as to why.