Aqua Taskforce

ebaur wrote on October 17, 2008, 4:24am

I don't quite understand the motivation for this suggestion... yes, they are all operations that involve filesystems to some point, but *everything* the finder does involves the filesystem.

These three operations are doing very different things and should appear different. For example, a copy or a move is duplicating information within or between filesystems. An archive is changing the information on the filesystem. A disk mount is creating a virtual filesystem (really, all you're doing is displaying information within a file - the image file - and using the Finder to do it).

These should appear differently so you can tell at a glance what is going on.

mojo2012 wrote on October 17, 2008, 1:20pm

But why is there sometimes an icon, sometimes not. Some dialogs have a cancel button, some an X. Why not unify these windows?
You can differentiate them with their window title and text?
Imagine that: the file menu looks different (themes, color, icons, ... not menu entries!) than the view menu, because the funcionalities are different? Makes no sense, does it?

jasper wrote on October 20, 2008, 3:31pm

To the user, these perform same tasks - copying files (extracting is copying from a compressed folder, and opening a disk image is extracting files from a Disk Image to show to the user - yes, technicaly all different things, but to the commen user they're not. Also, consistence with loading float windows would be nicer.

linuxforever wrote on May 26, 2009, 11:26am

Taking the idea one step further: Executing multiple different actions accessing the file system in parallel and showing their progress in one window makes sense to me because you could pause/stop single processes and assign priorities over the limited bandwidth by dragging items up/down the list to ensure the user's preferred task finishes as fast as possible.