[Ti] [OT] Re: [Ti] Panther Firewire debacle

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Sunday, November 2, 2003, at 01:53  am, Benn wrote:

> I think I did a explain why in my early e-mail.  Now onto Tarik's 
> response:
>
>
> On Nov 1, 2003, at 4:53 PM, Tarik Bilgin wrote:
>> * I hate that the default, and only possible "snap to grid" gridsize 
>> is so big as to make the icon views all unusable for me on my 15" Ti. 
>> therefore I only ever use column view mode, which causes problems as 
>> the computer is constantly reading disk to show me a preview of the 
>> file etc.
>
> I guess that could be a problem (the snap to grid thing), but with 
> column view I pretty much never want to use icon view again.  As for 
> the preview thing, why not just turn off Preview?  Problem solved!  
> You can either click the preview arrow in the preview pane, or go to 
> Show View Options (cmd-j) and uncheck "show previews."

Good job on the "preview" thing...

what I ideally want is something where I have one section of the window 
where I can see where I am in the hierarchy, and another where I have 
some kind of "list view", since I often want to see which user owns a 
file, when it was last modified etc.


>
>
>> *I wish when I started typing "a" ... "d" on the keyboard with Finder 
>> in focus, it would move to files like "Adobe Photoshop 7" rather than 
>> first going to the first file that begins with "a" and then jumping 
>> to the first file that begins with "d".
>
> Well, I guess you should probably hit "a-d" a little quicker as if you 
> were typing it.  The way it works great for me, and I have Delay Until 
> Repeat in the preference pane set to the shortest possible (which, it 
> seems, controls the difference in keyboard-finder navigation).

wow! i had no idea it was my typing being too slow....I'll try your 
trick with the delay until repeat being the lowest, as I have always 
been a "keyboardy shortcut" kind of person.

To address other issues raised elsewhere:

My complaint is not some zealous, unfounded wish to have "the window 
control buttons in the top right" or for everything to be "just like it 
was in Mac OS 9".  I just want the Finder to work with me, and at the 
moment I seem to spend some time fighting it.

cya later Ti buddies,

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Tarik