blech:
posted on 2003/02/23 23:28
I got bitten by the absolute borkenness of Software Update in Mac OS X 10.1.2 or thereabouts, and after the obligatory whining that software should be smart, I buckled under.
So now I have a vast Applications folder that takes seconds to render from the dock menu, unlike my deep tree of Mac OS 9 applications (which, of course, moved around as I pleased).
Still, at least it looks like Apple have realised that it's my computer. A bit.
jerakeen:
I've been pondering having /My Applications (or some less trite name) where I put things that tell me to drag them to my applications folder, so /Applications is only applications that insisted on installing themselves there. But of course that puts all my apps in 2 places. I'm still sort of used to a 'start menu' type concept..
blech:
You can always hack up a start menu with a folder containing aliases to other folders in your dock, I suppose.
In fact, I could do that even with a monolithic Applications folder.
[ 0 days, 10 hours later ]
John Gruber once more points out succintly what I tried to in the comments here: Apple used not to be so useless, until Mac OS 10, and half the things that are being heralded as great new features are actually just putting back stuff that bloody well should have been there.
hitherto:
daringfireball++ # a lone voice of sense in a world of brain-dead mac bloggers
jerakeen:
I don't like the last paragraph of that at /all/ - that's a stupid way of dealing with it. For a start, I've had multiple copies of safari on my system in the past, because one of them was in the TRASH. Didn't stop it being run all the time.
blech:
Asking which version to update?
That worked perfectly well in OS 9. As to opening an app from the trash, that's yet another OS X bug. Saying one bug should stop another from happening is silly.
jerakeen:
Ok, fair enough. But there has to be a better way than presenting the user with a potnetially confusing list of identical (from the user's point of view) applications and demanding they choose one. Update the newest one! Update the one that's in the dock. Don't interrupt my software update to ask me a dozen annoying questions because I have a backup of my system in a folder somewhere and so I have 2 copies of every app on my system.
blech:
I seem to recall a dialog with a path structure at the bottom, which is what you'll see if you highlight a found item in Sherlock 1 or 10.2's Find.
jerakeen:
I still feel it's a cop-out. I'm not being very constructive, I know, but in 90% of cases there's a clear-cut Right One To Choose.
We hate you all. Yes, especially you. Sod off and DIE