Re: My list of System 6.01 bugs

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

> [lots of minor bugs removed..]
>
>4.  Finder still counts each icon one by one when preparing for a copy. 
>This slows things down unnecessarily.  Can't it count all the files in
>one big shot (the way it counts files hidden inside a directory)?

Yeah, I always meant to say something about this since 6.0.  Why does it
have to count it through?  Back in 5.0, total number of files was obtained
very quickly, and it usually starts to copy almost instantly.  The way
it counts each file is rather annoying ( slow ).

> [more minor bugs ( Brian's compalin rather ) removed by me..]
>
>8. Need some way to bypass auto-select feature in the Finder, or speed
>up the routine.  It slows things down too much in a medium-sized
>directory, not to mention a few with 100+ files.  This is with a Zip
>8/16 and I got a taste of what it was like on a stock 2.8-MHz GS last
>night.  Not a pretty sight.

An option in Finder's preference will do.  Although I kinda like this
new feature.  In the older Finder, you aren't sure if you actually selected
all the icons you want.

>9. Icon in Info window not updated when file changes (but filetype
>description does).

Geez, how often does this happen?  :) 

> [..]
>
>    One suggestion: how about giving us back our horizontal scroll bars
>in list views?  An old, old version of the Finder (1.0? 1.1?) had this
>feature, but it was taken out for some reason.  Since you're trying to
>make the GS Finder act like the Mac Finder.... :-P

I want this too.

-- 
frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com