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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:00 am |
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Got another interface question for you Mac OS experts out there. Is there any way to change the behaviour of Finder when you click on a filename in list view. It always instantly goes into file renaming mode, which can be very annyoing. In Windows, if you click on the filename once, it just highlights the file. A second click will go into rename mode. I don't necessarily need to match Windows behavior, but anything to keep it from instantly going into this mode would really help.
Thanks for any tips!
David
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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:04 am |
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1. Try clicking on the icon instead of the file name.
2. If clicking on the file name, move the cursor away from the file name.
The behaviour is supposed to be if you click on the file name and leave the pointer on the name, it will go into rename mode. Otherwise, it expects you to be doing something else.
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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:11 am |
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I think the easiest solution is to get into the habit of clicking the icon, not the name.
The suggestion of moving the mouse away after clicking does not work for me.
Another trick is to lock the file, although it may not be suitable in your scenario. I like aliases to applications along the bottom of my desktop. Works great for drag and drop, but when clicking the names I was going into file rename mode. Locked the files and problem solved.
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Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:23 pm |
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I am sure that he did not mean that you should move the mouse away after clicking ('cos that would not work for anyone), but that you should move away from the name before clicking, i.e., click on the small icon found at the left in list view. Essentially, you are not meant to click on the name at all unless you want to change the name.
A simpler way of putting this is to say that the MacOS UI is graphical. You always click on icons to open/ work with files.
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:44 am |
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| I appreciate the responses, but all I can say is that this is bad programming. The system should not instantly assume you want to rename a file because you click on it. The programmers should have at least incorporated some kind of delay option in the system settings. I realize now that you can click on the icon, but this is not intuitive and a much smaller area to click on. I can't tell you how many times this little quirk has goofed me up.
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Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:27 am |
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System777 wrote:
I appreciate the responses, but all I can say is that this is bad programming. The system should not instantly assume you want to rename a file because you click on it. The programmers should have at least incorporated some kind of delay option in the system settings. I realize now that you can click on the icon, but this is not intuitive and a much smaller area to click on. I can't tell you how many times this little quirk has goofed me up. |
A couple of things:
1. Not so much bad programming but a paradigm shift. Click the icon to select the file. Click the name to change it. It is different. So is the fact that Mac and PC Windows are pretty much opposite each other interms of controls. It drives switchers in either direction nuts for awhile. They keep reaching "intuitively" for the wrong place on the screen.
2. In general, mousing on a mac, especially in the system 7 vintage versus the same vintage PC, has been far more precise. I cannot tell you the number of times I watched PC users struggling with precision mousing in that era. The way to go on PC was using the keyboard. I also can't tell you the strange looks I got when I actually sat down with an avid PC user in that era and he watched me working. The comment as best I can remember was "It's obvious you know what you are doing because things are happening and happening fast but watching you is really really strange because you don't do anything the way I would do it.".
A good "Rollerball" mouse (no optical at that time) that was fairly new and clean would hit those small icons right on every time.
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