Panther: Finder observations
October 27th, 2003
- Mounted drives
- The display of mounted network drives leaves a lot to be desired, as displayed in this image. Clicking on the sidebar icon of a mounted drive highlights the startup disk and shows the mount as an alias in /private/var/automount/Network/Local/ rather than simply displaying the mount’s contents in the first column. The current behavior is inconsistent with the way other sidebar items work.
- A sidebar button to disconnect from network drives similar to that used to eject physical media would be nice. Currently, a switch to the “Computer” sidebar item or desktop is needed to unmount a drive. The contextual menu for network mounts should say “Disconnect from *” rather than “Eject.”
- One of the minor features of the pre-10.3 Finder, the summoning of the “Customize Toolbar” sheet when shift is held while clicking the toolbar toggle widget (the Tic-Tac), is gone. I hoped they would make this a system wide behavior, but now it is gone from the one application I’d found it it! This would make it a lot easier to customize toolbars because developers place the menu item under different menu headers - some under Edit, some under View, some under Window. Not cool.
- The location name displayed in the search box should be capitalized as it is in Mail, Safari, and iCal.
- Both a JPEG 2000 specific icon and the ability to show icon previews for such images are needed.
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