Betalogue

What does the Finder make a distinction between preparation and action?

You can assign a keyboard shortcut to an action menu command in System Prefs, and it will appear in the menu, but it won’t work.

A rather obscure bug about the Downloads folder when used in list view with the Camino web browser.

A long-standing inconsistency that is still not fixed in Mac OS X 10.5 and continues to bug list view users on a daily basis.

Another case of inaccurate scrolling in Finder windows.

Very weird and inappropriate behaviour when trying to create an alias in the Finder.

A basic flaw that confirms list view’s status as a second-class citizen.

A couple of questionable design choices that make Quick Look less useful than it could and should be.

A long-standing problem that is part of a more general trend at Apple: Usability bugs and flaws are simply not getting fixed. Ever.

Apple doesn’t want you to delete more than two files at the same time.

Yet more UI design sloppiness in Mac OS X’s Finder.

It looks like it’s selected, but it’s not actually selected. Oops.

Next in the line of convicts awaiting execution: Apple.

Mac OS X’s Preview application, which is the default reader for PDF and picture files, has consistently improved over the years. Yet even version 3.0 (included in Tiger) still suffers from annoying quirks and flaws that limit its appeal as the default PDF reader application. For example, say you are in any Mac OS X […]

I am a long-time Mail user but, ever since I switched to it from Eudora back in 2002, I have maintained the habit of using it without the message preview pane. In other words, my main viewer window in Mail has the list of mailboxes on the left-hand side and then the message list area, […]