appleinsider.com — People familiar with matter say the Finder, which currently stands as one of the oldest Carbon-based applications in the Mac OS portfolio, has been completely re-written in the company's native object-oriented application program environment called Cocoa.
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Closed AccountOct 18, 2008
digitallysick, I'm right there with you. I too, am a Finder Tab Zealot. I don't know what the muppets above me are smoking, but you're 100% right and the crap they're espousing is just trolly, Digg-horses**t. Tabbed Finder windows would work conceptually within the bounds of the OS and the GUI behavior JUST FINE, since there are a-f**king-gazillion tabbed apps out there... Implementing it may indeed be a different story — I'm not an Apple dev, so I don't know how that would go. But I'm tired of having 400 Finder windows open. The current functionality of Finder windowing is flat out inefficient and it's just plain silly that tabs haven't been done yet, or at the very least that the technical hurdles haven't been openly addressed by Apple. TABS, BITCHES... TABS!!!
nextstationOct 18, 2008
I applaud Apple's direction of taking some time to polish stability and performance, rather than keeping on adding features.However, there's something I **really** miss in Mac OS X and see very seldom mentioned: a package manager.Most Linux systems (Debian-based, Arch) and BSDs are far superior to Mac OS in terms of administration due to the lack of a proper package management mechanism.Installing Apps is a no-brainer, but each of them has to be removed manually, if you really want to get rid of all the files there. If not, the entropy of the system increases a lot with time.Libraries are much worse. If you get them packaged, they're easy to install. If not, you need to build and install them, usually facing some obstacles. Moreover, keeping them up-to-date and maintaining dependencies is a nightmare. Apple does not update all the Unix utilities shipped with Mac OS, unless there's a **big** security bug. So some of them are usually so old they're useless.This is very silly, because they could easily improve MacPorts (add binaries, refresh ports frequently, etc) and integrate it into the system. Then we would have a nice package management system with some interesting features (ability to compile from source, ability to keep several versions of the same package installed simultaneously).
jonathangerlachOct 19, 2008
Wow. I know the difference between a codec and a container. I didn't want to confuse anyone by bringing that up. I think Perian is cool, but I disagree with the idea of a codec pack. Quicktime supports the AVI container and MPEG4 as they are both common standard formats. It shouldn't matter that Quicktime doesn't know what XVID means. The problem that I see it that Quicktime is just looking at the FOURCC instead of the actual data. Maybe the FOURCC should be ignored and a different method of loading should be used if an exact codec match isn't found.
Closed AccountOct 19, 2008
I like the beach.
Closed AccountOct 19, 2008
G-Spot
Closed AccountOct 19, 2008
Ok, but - not so hard.
zhangzhangJan 5, 2009
It may make your work enjoy!