{"id":1000382,"date":"2007-01-30T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T13:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2007\/01\/30\/eight-windows-features-mac-os-x-should-adopt\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T06:40:38","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T11:40:38","slug":"eight-windows-features-mac-os-x-should-adopt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2007\/01\/30\/eight-windows-features-mac-os-x-should-adopt\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Windows Features Mac OS X Should Adopt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Hargreaves has a nice write-up of nine Windows features Mac OS X should adopt<\/a>. I agree (or at least don’t disagree) with eight of them. However the one I part company on is #5, “Refresh keystroke\/toolbar button for Finder windows”. Eddie explains:<\/p>\n

\nNearly every major revision of OS X has touted an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153improved Finder\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and one of the improvements has been the updating of folder contents. But there are still occasions where a file has been updated and its appearance in a Finder window goes unaltered. Windows toolbars have a refresh button that can be used to update the contents of the window. Since Apple has already copied the concept of making Finder windows look and act like browser windows (forward\/backward buttons) they should add a refresh or reload button. They wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have to create a new toolbar button icon, since they could just use the one from Safari. They could even use the same keyboard shortcut, since Command-R is currently unused in the Finder. Ideally, a refresh button shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be needed in the Finder at all, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen four major revisions of OS X and it still hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t become unnecessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry. That is totally the wrong solution to the problem, and totally a Windows way of thinking. You do not put an extra button in to make the computer do something it can and should do automatically. If there’s a problem with auto-detecting the need for refresh, then you fix the underlying problem so auto-refreshs happen automatically. You do not complexify the interface. The product is done when there’s nothing more to take out, not when there’s nothing left to put in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eddie Hargreaves has a nice write-up of nine Windows features Mac OS X should adopt. I agree (or at least don’t disagree) with eight of them. However the one I part company on is #5, “Refresh keystroke\/toolbar button for Finder windows”. Eddie explains: Nearly every major revision of OS X has touted an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153improved Finder\u00e2\u20ac\u009d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}