[Ti] "I'm Emptying the Trash now, Dave"

[David Remahl]

The OS X finder is poor. It would have worked a lot better as a Cocoa 
application, but Apple had its reasons for making it Carbon. They 
needed a major Carbon application to sort of drive the development and 
bug-fixing of the Carbon environment - to make sure it was usable for 
other major applications such as Adobe's.

Lets hope Apple reverses that in Panther and makes Finder a truly 
multi-threaded, multi-user, Services-friendly, integrated Cocoa 
application.

But anyway, why do you care how long time it takes to empty the trash? 
It's a modeless window! You don't need to sit there watching the barber 
pole. You should go do something else and let the system get on with 
it. Being able to multitask in your mind is one of the most important 
steps to using Mac OS X instead of OS 9. In OS 9 we got used to sitting 
silently waiting for Photoshop to launch. Now we can use that time to 
do something half-useful, such as check the mail, empty the trash or 
clean up the desktop!

/ Rgds, David

On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Tarik Bilgin wrote:

>>> My entire 'gripe' with the Finder, and sluggishness in OSX-Jaguar, 
>>> is best summed-up by the annoying dialog box: "Preparing to empty 
>>> the Trash"...that will remain on screen for many seconds, even if 
>>> all that's being trashed is an alias or an empty folder...And then 
>>> it pauses on the 'empty' frame for additional seconds...
>>
>> Eh?? If I empty the trash, it empties. No delay, no dialog box it's 
>> just suddenly empty.
>
> I run Mac OS 10.2.4 on my G4 400 Ti.
>
> (carbon) Finder.app is sluggish and can hang or end up in a funked up 
> state more than any other app (and I don;t use the finder that much)
>
> I can also confirm ridiculously slow trash emptying.