My list of System 6.01 bugs

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

    Here's what I have so far.  Everyone knows about the Pointless +
6.01 bug, so I won't list it again.

1.  Keyboard navigation in Finder still active when info window in
front.  This is confusing (since L and I keys also used for Locked and
Inactive checkboxes).

2.  Closing window always selects enclosing icon, even when other icons
are selected.  This is contrary to the readme file.  I've complained to
Jim Murphy about this but he tells me they decided to make it more
consistent with the Mac.  I personally find this philosophy distasteful,
but what do I know about GUI design?  :-P  Temporary solution: use the
Piece 'O String FExt.

3.  I've found a bug which is caused by (2), so maybe this will convince
Jim & Dave to put it back the way it should be.  ;-)  Insert a few
floppies and open a window on each of them.  Select all the floppy icons
and drag them to the trash.  Guess what?  After the first window closes,
Finder forgets to put away the other floppy icons!  Why?  Because it
undoes your icon selection and highlights the floppy whose window was
just closed.  Ta da.  I don't like the Finder overriding my icon
selections like this.  I can use the Mac's Finder for this type of
aggravation.  Please put it back to the way it was before (or to the way
it is described in the System 6.01 readme file).

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)?

5.  Bill Tudor's "CDev Alias" NDA no longer works under System 6.0.1.

6.  When highlighting text using Shift+arrow in LineEdit box, text does
not scroll if cursor extends past edges of box (i.e., I can't see how
far I'm extending my selection).

7. Startup sound not purged after playing.  I thought this was going to
be fixed for 6.01.

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.

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

10. Scroll bar not updated in window when icons added/removed.  You have
to resize the window to update the scroll bar.  I was running YankIt in
the background (in GNO, of course ;-)) and the file icons kept magically
popping up in the Finder window, but I couldn't scroll around until I
manually resized it.

11. File icon does not change in Finder when "Inactive" checkbox
changed.  I have two sets of generic NDA/CDA/CDev/etc. icons.  The
inactive version has a red X through it, and it is matched to auxtype
$8000.  BTW, this only works for files whose native auxtype is $0000 to
begin with.  I took an NDA with a X'ed out icon, unchecked the
"Inactive" box and the icon didn't change.

    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
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Brian Tao:: taob@io.org (Internex Online, 416-363-3783, 10 lines, v.32bis)
::::::::::: 90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (University of Toronto, 9T4)