Jaguar 6C48 New Finder Preference

[fryke]

Finally! We can choose to view all windows in Column View. Phew!

[aishafenton]

I'm most curious about what the Finder "computer" icon will replaced with?

Surly they can't leave it as the little blue iMac!?

Have they changed it in the 10.2 seeds yet??? I wonder if they'll implement a themeing option for the finder icons?

[fryke]

Themeing options seem highly unlikely.

The iMac icon is still there, and it makes sense to me. All through the 'Classic' eon, we had the original Macintosh throughout the system. The original iMac has been a big turning point in the design of the newer Macintosh computers. So the blue iMac is cool for me.

By the way: Stability is way up from 6C35.

[Shifting]

Originally posted by fryke
So the blue iMac is cool for me.

i like the blue iMac icon, too. mainly because it looks exactly like my Indigo iMac DV...it's like Apple personalized OS X just for me!

er, yeah, anyway, that's cool about the Finder prefs. i don't use column view at all, but still, it's a nice addition, and certainly something that many people will be pleased about.

[Hypernate]

In some ways, I think it'd be kick-@$$ if the OS somehow detected what computer you were using, and then displayed it as the button. Each model has a different 'ID' on it's mother board, right? So, if the OS can detect that I am using an LCD iMac, but my Dad is using a TiBook, couldn't it show an iMac LCD for me, and a TiBook for my dad's?

[aishafenton]

Hmmm, I don't know. I think that little Indigo iMac has to go.

The original mac had little mac pictures everywhere because the software team wanted to create a synergy between the OS and the hardware.

And once the original mac had revolutionized the computer world, well it just seemed nice to keep em around.

Although the original iMacs do mark a great turning point for Apple, I don't think they are important enough to symbolize all of apple's computers... I think they should return to the original intentions of the mac and have that icon reflect your hardware.

okay. UI issues abound here, with inconsistence that would create.. but it would remind the user a little more about their hardware.. and at the end of the day apple makes money from people being aware of their hardware.

plus I don't think new mac users would know what a original iMac was.

[ksuther]

Originally posted by aishafenton
Hmmm, I don't know. I think that little Indigo iMac has to go.
plus I don't think new mac users would know what a original iMac was.

Are you kidding me? You'd be surprised at how many people know about Apple. Even little kids. During this last school year I had to transfer busses to get home and the second bus I'd ride was a bunch of 1st-4th graders. I'd be using my TiBook there, and almost half of them would walk by and ask me if it was an iBook. Almost everyone knows what an iMac and an iBook is

As for column view, opening all in column view will be great as long as I have my spring-loaded columns

[aishafenton]

Unfortunately, out here in southern Siberia (okay not quite, actually New Zealand) we don't get very much advertising for Apple.

Everyone knows Apple, but for a lot of people they have only opened their eyes since Apple started to release their new consumer line (new iMacs and iPod).

but yeah.. i guess most would know about the original coloured iMacs.. but i don't think they'd have enough brand association to understand that that iMac represents their computer.