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