[X4U] Networking Leopard vs. Tiger

Thomas W Noel tnoel at mac.com
Mon Jan 21 11:00:27 PST 2008


The desktop icon for mounted shared drives is a Finder preference, off  
by default. The sidebar shows what is "available" but not mounted.


On Jan 21, 2008, at 7:16 AM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> The user interface seems to have changed a LOT. In Leopard, things  
> listed as
> shareable remain in the "shared" pane of the host, even when they're  
> not
> mounted, but even when they ARE mounted, they don't put icons on the  
> host
> Mac's desktop.
>
> Is this what others are seeing? Does it make any difference if one  
> Mac is
> running Tiger and the other Leopard?
>
> I suppose I'll get used to this eventually, but I don't like some of  
> these
> changes (I haven't seen such ugly icons for default folders since  
> Finder
> 1.1(g) (that's 128K Macs from 1984 for those with short memories).
>
> Jim Robertson
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