Ok guys, enough’s enough, for Christ’s sake! Stop releasing your software so that when you mount the disk image the finder window, that presents your application, is in simple mode!!! It is especially annoying when you don’t place a complementary link to the local Applications folder.
LOOK!
That is a stupid way of doing things! The finder is so rich and useful now, why the fuck do we need to keep living the < OS 9 days?! Simple-ass windows.
Each time you download an application that behaves like this. You have to click on the button in the top right corner to see the following Finder window, then drag the application to your Application folder:
I know what you’re thinking, no big deal, and you’re right. Although, when you multiply that “no big deal” by 10123123 times you get a pissed off user. A lot of applications are designed to be updated by downloading the whole application over again. Once you have the updated application file, you drag it to the Application folder and overwrite the original. Easy. All you preferences are saved, registration info, etc. The problem is when you have to add a extra step into that process it gets old, quick.
So to all you OS X developers out there, listen up! You are so close to app-install nirvana you are suffering an Icarusarian fall from grace. Keep the Finder alone, ok? I don’t like simple-mode and I never did. Cut that shit out.
Update – 2/1/2008
To clear up any confusion over what I’m actually bitching about. I had unknowingly used the term “simple finder” to describe a finder window with the hidden toolbar option enabled, for lack of a better phrase. So my real beef is with developers who prefer this “hidden toolbar” finder setting, and tend to us this view setting when packaging their application disk images.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Simple Finder? I am not sure what you are talking about. This article may help you.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1085.html
I think you are talking about “useless” disk images. I disagree with you. Installers are bad. Poorly written installers modify file permissions incorrectly, or worse. Drag and drop of shit apps like Azureus is the only way to go. I can easily see a kernel panic after sloppy ad filled bit torrent app. install. What happens when you need to uninstall? Do you keep all the boxes that UPS delivers too? Throw those disk image files away!
January 31st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Oh don’t get me wrong, I LOVE to drag and drop to install an application. And by “simple” finder I’m talking about a finder window that lacks the home directory shortcuts and other interface features. The technical terminology of this “reduced/crippled/nutless” finder escapes me, but I recognize that it stems from early pre-X windowing environments.
Why developers choose to save their window preferences to this “reduced” finder view is beyond me. Whether it’s to give the presentation of their shiny new .app some artsy polish, or whether it’s at its core an attempt to relive some long lost OS 7 yesteryear, who knows? To me, it’s purely an inconvenience when you have about 100 apps to keep up to date and have to keep expanding the finder to drag it over to the Application folder.
Yes, it’s a small detail, but it gets more noticeable the more you install. Just add a link to the local Apps folder, and I’m happy either way.
And you are right, Azureus is a shit app like no other.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
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