Mavericks Finder - how default to "double click opens new window"?

Alex Geis wrote:

...For everyone else who continues to just recommend that we should accept it or just keeping posting to Apple... if you don't have anything to contribute, learn to keep your snobbery to yourself. I for one am not interested in accepting the status quo of mediocraty. If i were, I'd go buy a box with Windows on it.

Thank you Alex, a superbly articulate summation.
Shame it's not being read correctly by those that need to take this on-board...

Very good. Now add something of value yourselves to the thread.

Cheers

Pete

The Dude Abides,

Excellent, and 100% on point. Especially with the enterprise stuff back in the day, a lot of it was all about getting into the nitty gritty and when in doubt, coming on here and rattling someones brain who's been through the suck. I remember the poster named Camelot who saved my *** more times than I can remember with 10.4 Server and postfix. I was on the original XSan beta team, and remember when accidentally unhooking a ethernet wire would kern panic 7 machines simultaneiously and it was all about complex logs, bug reporting and sending those recommendations to Apple. That's back when they would listen and engineering would actually return emails once in a while. Gone are those days. I got some MAJOR slack from the community when I posted a "is Xsan dead" article years ago, and then when it reemerged as part as the "OS X Server App" as a toolkit upon separate OS build discontinuation, I had a good laugh. I think that a good amount of the quality loss you talk about on these boards is simply due to the fact that everything across the board with Apple is becoming so sanitized that, well, there aren't too many areas left to actually geek out and get into the nitty gritty with innovation. And you're absolutely right... this may still be a discussion board for trying to get or provide input, but the days of that intellectual and innovating "community" is long gone. I actually feel rather reluctant to post in the mobile board areas cause of the attitude (hence my comments from the earlier post... don't take them the wrong way).

Now, when they killed the Xserve, I said to msyelf... wait a year, and OS X Server and XSan will be next. But even I wouldn't have dared to think: "what's next... killing off the ability to double click and open a folder".

Appriciate it Adam :-)

petermac87 wrote:

Very good. Now add something of value yourselves to the thread.

Cheers

Pete

Sighhh... yes, done quite some time ago 'Admin' but hey, I wouldn't expect you to know that pete, you only selectively read the posts of others to give yourself trolling fodder...

Alex Geis wrote:

...But even I wouldn't have dared to think: "what's next... killing off the ability to double click and open a folder".

And I think that's the core point here Alex. This is such deeply embedded functionality that is so logical & obvious. Why remove it?
Surely to retain it as an option wouldn't place some vast drain on system resources.
It's removal, along with other things like the loss of coloured tabs, seems to be more like a bloody-minded purging of the old than a surge towards the new.

Rather than just publishing glowing & glossy lists of what's been added to the OS I really believe Apple has a responsibility to start listing what it is removing from the OS with each update rather than leaving uses gobsmacked when they find that such core functions haven't just been changed they've been deleted. Even if it was just by way of a tech support document.

Ditto!!!!!!!!!!!!

You could Apple your opinions. I may have mentioned a feedback link somewhere.

Pete

Already did. Emailed straight to Cook.

I've been using Macs for almost twenty years, and after the last three iterations of OS X it has been a straight downhill experience.

That should solve it. Or just return to Snow Leopard. Some have that require its features.

Cheers

Pete

I use Photoshop most of the day while drawing with a wacom and using the keyboard at the same time.

So contrl+cmmnd worked - I had to adapt to this nonsense.

Hope it changes, along with labels. There are apps though we can pay for to get labels back. Not nice Apple, not nice.😐

Not being able to open folders innew windows by just clicking

I really miss the "open folder in a new window by just clicking on it" feature, I find quite annoying having to use a key or the right button of the mouse. Nevertheless I am happy that Apple let me do this in my living room, in my office, in my bedroom... even outside, on the go! Thanks Apple! A(nother) giant step fro mankind...

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Pete

As far back as I can remember, I have double-clicked to open folders in a new window with the previous window(s) left open as I drill down. If I knew that I would not need quick access to a previous window, I would hold down the OPTION Key when double-clicking a window to get the current default Mavericks behavior. All I can guess is that the people in Apple Development assume that people don't use their Macs to make a living. I don't have time to spend hours getting basic functionality back!

Change does not equate to "progress". So far Mavericks has just been one big PITA. Have not found one of the 200 "features" yet that has been a big step forward (but you get what you pay for I guess).

• Changing the way folders open (and not for the better, just to be different)?

• Changing "labels" to little "dots" that I cannot even sort on?

This is Apple Innovation now? Moving everything from the right to the left seems to be considered an "advancement" now - just wastes time on a grande scale.

And while you are at it, bring back double-clicking a title bar to collapse a window. Here is an idea... if you want to really do something innovative and increase "productivity", put the Finder functionality back to where it was in previous versions. If you want to add "options" for little colored dots and various alternative window behaviors, fine, but make them "options" not "defaults"!