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

BAD NEWS again...

Apple still did not fix this terrible bug in 10.9.3...

Should not be too difficult... It has been there for 30 years, until mavericks destroyed it...

Will resubmit a bug-report right away!

To be an Apple Lover you must forgive them for occassionally dropping the ball.

I have been an Apple user for 20 years (I think)

This one drives me nuts.

Can't believe they did this. Makes no sense. They got it wrong.

Yes, I would like to click a button and have all my window to go tab browser formation after I make a mess of the desktop with millions of separately opened windows, but I don't want to be not have separate windows, or have to do a mouse and keyboard operation to open a new window in it's own pane.

I hate when designer's put form over function.

To The Designer Gods at Apple:

The new Mavericks default behavior, where double-click opens in the same folder window, obscuring the previous window, seems suspiciously like the single-window worldview of certain tablet and phone hardware also made by Apple, where you only get to look at one thing at a time. (Or Windows 8). Two folder windows open? Oooh, clutter. It feels like we are on a slippery slope to iOS, or back to DOS, actually.

There may be tasks suitable for one-window-at-a-time (and demographic subsets who think that way). However, many of us need to be able to see, compare, correlate, copy, assimilate, content from multiple windows/sources at one time, including multiple folders.

Just think. If I practice really hard, I might be able to do Right-Click - Open In New Window as fast as a Really Slow DoubleClick.

BStaud wrote:

To The Designer Gods at Apple:

You can give them feedbackhere

Cheers

Pete

Helgason, does your plugin: EasySIMBL (TheLostFinderNewWindow) work on Mavericks OS X10.9.3 (three)? It doesn't seem to have any effect on my MacPro (2008)

Thanks, maxwideman@shaw.ca

maxwideman wrote:

Helgason, does your plugin: EasySIMBL (TheLostFinderNewWindow) work on Mavericks OS X10.9.3 (three)? It doesn't seem to have any effect on my MacPro (2008)

It works in OS X 10.9.3 on my iMac. It doesn't work straight away, you need to restart your computer (actually shut down and restart, not just log out).

I recently had to reinstall Mavericks. I tried living without the plugin to see if I could get used to the window issue, but I didn’t get used to it, it remained a constant irritation. After 10 days I reinstalled the plugin - what a relief!

Here's the link again in case anyone new to this thread has missed it:

http://siggi.hk/index.php?action=TheLostFinderNewWindow

Helgason's TheLostFinderNewWindow plugin is a gift from heaven as it restores the fundamentally important double-click-opens-folder-in-a-new-separate-window. It rescued the operability of my archives built up over many years. I never ever imagined a basic UI-operation like this would possibly be changed. Before Mavericks came...

Now I wonder if this is going to continue. Things changing for the worse, the need would emerge for many new plugins. My worried question is: Could plugins like this one compromise security or privacy of the system?

Thanks a billion times @ Helgason

@Helgason & @Axtmorder: Me too also — a simple plugin but absolutely invaluable 🙂 I also had some difficulty in making OSX 10.9.3 to accept the plugin, but I found that if I went through the install instructions and immediately shut down and restarted, it actually worked seamlessly. And so far, continues to do so.

Unfortunately, it seems, that this plug-in does not work on the Yosemite beta.

But maybe it's not the plug-in itself, but rather SIMBL not starting up under Yosemite. As easySIMBL you'll not leave the "Use SIMBL" checkbox checked.

Does that mean that Apple has completely ignored all the feedback and that Yosemite is just as poor from a useability perspective as Mavericks? I'm sick of all these bells and whistles they are throwing our way. I just want my basic functionality back. Ah well, better send another feedback report for Apple to disregard.

dackman wrote:

Does that mean that Apple has completely ignored all the feedback and that Yosemite is just as poor from a useability perspective as Mavericks

Guess we will know that when it's released. Or just guess if you want an answer before it is released.

dackman wrote:

Does that mean that Apple ha completely ignored all the feedback

How much feedback was there?

Oh excuse me - false alarm.

After I rebooted my Yosemite DP1,

SIMBL seams to be loaded now. Finder is ok now again with "TheLostFinderNewWindow".

Thumbs up!

I'd just like to express my deep, deep gratitude to the author of this. It may seem a bit petty, but this ridiculous finder change has really been taking the shine off getting a new Mac - twenty years of habit are hard to break! FWIW, given Apple my 2p worth over the change, more than once - what was the point???

Again many, many thanks to the author for restoring normality.

No, I am only able to get another tab. Also, in general preferences, I have deselected 'open folders in tabs instead of windows' but it NEVER does--ALWAYS opens in tabs. I have to manually go up to select 'new finder window' in order to get 2 finder windows open, then click on the third one that I wanted open in the first place. It is a constant battle with an invisible enemy. Another nail in the coffin for Mavericks.