“Much of the Mac’s Desktop and Finder metaphor came from Raskin,” McElfresh reports. “That was then. This is now. The way we manage files, apps, and interact with our Mac hasn’t changed much since Raskin’s Mac efforts went public in 1984.”
McElfresh reports, “It’s still a Desktop and Finder world. What’s the next great thing? Maybe it’s touch. But not touch in the way we use our iPhones. Touch in the way we use a Mac. Only different. Better? Maybe.”
“‘Raskin’ is a Finder replacement which changes the way we interact with our Macs. Finder? Desktop? Goodbye. And, with the right equipment attached to your Mac, [interaction that’s] perhaps easier, perhaps better, certainly different.”
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I agree with Predrag.
I’ve been using Spotlight more and more, and its command-spacebar shortcut. Usually gets me right to the program or file I want to open from any application I’m in with just a few keystrokes. (I do find myself using the Finder less and less.)
I’ve been using Spotlight more and more, and its command-spacebar shortcut. Usually gets me right to the program or file I want to open from any application I’m in with just a few keystrokes. (I do find myself using the Finder less and less.)
Ugh! Just fix List View. If I set one folder inside to icon view, I don’t necessarily want to set other folders to the same view. But no… Finder knows better. Not!
Ugh! Just fix List View. If I set one folder inside to icon view, I don’t necessarily want to set other folders to the same view. But no… Finder knows better. Not!
Anything that would permanently deep-six the damned dock (Classic Menu’s author deserves a Nobel, though the dock is only undead) would cause the spontaneous eruption of world peace.
Anything that would permanently deep-six the damned dock (Classic Menu’s author deserves a Nobel, though the dock is only undead) would cause the spontaneous eruption of world peace.
Spotlight loses it’s usefulness when you can’t remember a filename out of hundreds you’ve created. A Desktop folder comes in real handy at that time. Hopefully you organized things a bit in advance. I’m on the iPad a lot these days and miss a Finder.
Spotlight loses it’s usefulness when you can’t remember a filename out of hundreds you’ve created. A Desktop folder comes in real handy at that time. Hopefully you organized things a bit in advance. I’m on the iPad a lot these days and miss a Finder.
Right now it’s not good for publishing or Photoshop
on my ‘desktop’ / MacBook Pro and 30″ Apple monitor.
It is an interesting concept and might have possibilities
for the iPad. Then again, it might go the way of
Dashboard. You do remember Dashboard? Anyone
use it lately?
Right now it’s not good for publishing or Photoshop
on my ‘desktop’ / MacBook Pro and 30″ Apple monitor.
It is an interesting concept and might have possibilities
for the iPad. Then again, it might go the way of
Dashboard. You do remember Dashboard? Anyone
use it lately?
Raskin is OK when you can identify thumbnails, but only a small % of my files can be visually identified.
Between that and human inertia, I see stick with what is now fast, intuitive and able to flip to a visual panning mode when needed.
“PathFinder” is a Finder replacement that gives me additional things I need so I think Raskin will just be an add-on.
Raskin is OK when you can identify thumbnails, but only a small % of my files can be visually identified.
Between that and human inertia, I see stick with what is now fast, intuitive and able to flip to a visual panning mode when needed.
“PathFinder” is a Finder replacement that gives me additional things I need so I think Raskin will just be an add-on.
Raskin sucks. I tried it a while back and it did nothing to simplify the Finder. In fact I found it convoluted and slow to do anything.
Raskin sucks. I tried it a while back and it did nothing to simplify the Finder. In fact I found it convoluted and slow to do anything.
this seems like a recycled idea…
this seems like a recycled idea…
I think Raskin works actually quite cool when using the trackpad, with pinch to zoom and swipe it’s very easy to browse through files. It also seems very similar to what Firefox wants to do with Panorama (Tab Candy).
I think Raskin works actually quite cool when using the trackpad, with pinch to zoom and swipe it’s very easy to browse through files. It also seems very similar to what Firefox wants to do with Panorama (Tab Candy).
Raskin creates a visual interface to your Mac so you can open apps, open documents, open images, all without digging around in the Finder.
Who “digs around in the Finder” anymore? I use Spotlight, as does just about everyone else who knows what it is. Two or three clicks of the keyboard, and I’ve got what I want.
A “visual” representation of the contents of a computer is a huge step backward. What we want is to not have to look for something at all. And that’s what Spotlight does for you.
——RM
Raskin creates a visual interface to your Mac so you can open apps, open documents, open images, all without digging around in the Finder.
Who “digs around in the Finder” anymore? I use Spotlight, as does just about everyone else who knows what it is. Two or three clicks of the keyboard, and I’ve got what I want.
A “visual” representation of the contents of a computer is a huge step backward. What we want is to not have to look for something at all. And that’s what Spotlight does for you.
——RM
I actually wish they would rename the Finder to “Desktop” like it was in the OS X beta. Much less confusing to newbies.
I actually wish they would rename the Finder to “Desktop” like it was in the OS X beta. Much less confusing to newbies.
@Macromancer,
“Because finding one file in a list of thousands is exactly what I had hoped for in a Finder replacement.”
@Macromancer,
“Because finding one file in a list of thousands is exactly what I had hoped for in a Finder replacement.”