Apparently, though unproven, at 00:09 on Sunday 05 June 2011, Stroller did opine thusly:
> > Yes, like FINDER (actually makes windows explorer look almost > > reasonable), > > You know, Finder is not as bad as you would imagine. As Alan says - it > works exactly how Steve thinks it should work. I can imagine it is > absolutely rubbish if you're forced to use it for only a few minutes at a > time. It's been so long since I started using OS X that I can't really > remember how it was at first, but I assuredly felt that way about Classic > (to MacOS 9). But what I do remember from my first days of OS X is that > after a couple of weeks I got used to it - I have been perfectly happy > ever after. So here's one thing that MacOS is very good at: text searches. I have to archive old mails in off-line tbz2 to retain some sanity, my colleagues on Macs don't. Their mail store goes somewhere (we don't know where, not having looked much) and 60,000 mails from 2 years doesn't slow things down. If we want to discuss the grand plan from 9 months ago about the public ftp server and replacing the DNS caches without actually ever paying for them, I have a 30 minute search ahead of me. The PFY types a few words in a text box and we magically watch the folder list get shorter and shorter. He can find almost any mail in less than a minute - looks a lot like Google's autocomplete search box actually. My point? MacOS has at least one very well thought-out feature for the users that 100% JustWorks. p.s. stroller - your line breaks are not really reasonable. I have 1920 pixels horizontally and mails display in 7 point Monospace; the mailer is maximized to benefit Folder View. I don't care about the dead space beyond the 100-column limit (Kopete windows set "Above all" fit in there nicely) but 240 column monospace txt is almost unreadable - the eye can no longer easily stay on the same line while scanning. 80 columns really is a good thing -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
