{"id":13,"date":"2011-08-04T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/variousbits.net\/2011\/08\/finder-is-rubbish\/"},"modified":"2022-12-04T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T12:16:17","slug":"finder-is-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2011\/08\/04\/finder-is-rubbish\/","title":{"rendered":"Finder is rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My friend @seanhandley just posted this<\/a> in response to my “where the fuck is ‘cut’ in OSX?” tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you know what, I’ve been thinking the same for a while, but it’s a bit of a sacrilege to say it and I’ve instead been muttering into my beard rather than actually saying it out loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not a fan boy other than the fact that I genuinely think that Apple make better, friendlier, more usable products – but this whole Finder thing is just a bit bloody bizarre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the things that bug the shit out of me, and make me wonder if Windows actually get windows better than Jobs and his gang:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the cut thing (I hear you can now ‘move’ in Lion – cool, that’s that one sorted)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the “can’t resize the fucking windows apart from on one corner” thing. Stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the “can’t really minimise all windows cos some apps don’t seem to listen” thing. Ridiculous. I have to use an app (“Show Desktop”) to do this. An app, ffs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the whole contextual “never in the right bloody folder” thing which I totally can’t articulate but when I’m using an app I want to be able to save in certain places and for whatever reason Finder is NEVER in the right place. A rambling criticism, but if you use it and use Windows, you’ll know exactly what I mean. Windows gets this right. OSX gets it wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s some other stuff too but I feel weird enough saying this lot in public. I’m going to go hide now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

{ Please tell me I’m wrong by the way, and actually there’s some kind of setting somewhere which will solve all of this \ud83d\ude42 }<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend @seanhandley just posted this in response to my “where the fuck is ‘cut’ in OSX?” tweet. Do you know what, I’ve been thinking the same for a while, but it’s a bit of a sacrilege to say it and I’ve instead been muttering into my beard rather than actually saying it out loud. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}