Comments on: Tackling Mac OS X Leopard’s Finder

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:30:05 +0000

Wow… so close! To be honest, I like yours better! Tabs would rock my socks. (And of course, your sidebar is so much prettier.) Kudos, on an awesome, useful-looking mockup, and for almost nailing the real Leopard finder! Hopefully 10.6 looks just like yours.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:37:02 +0000

You weren’t too far off

By: Red

Red — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:16:51 +0000

I want spatial navigation… Tabs are for web browsers.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:44:06 +0000

Great design. Well done!

[quote]This is something I would personally love to see. A Finder bread-crumb would represent a history of where you’ve been, rather than just a simple folder hierarchy. This would tie in nicely to the back and forward buttons, [/quote]

Noooo! That would be terrible. The back and forward buttons are for history purposes, a breadcrumb navigation symbolises hierarchy. Why turn the breadcrumb navigation into something inconsistent and redundant?

In every application, including iTunes and several websites, it represents how deep you are in the hierarchy.

Further, if it would represent history navigation, it wouldn’t be very handy to drop files onto.
With a “real” breadcrumb navigation I can imagine it would be easy to drop files onto parent folders by releasing it somewhere on the breadcrumb navigation bar.

By: Oxi Metoxi

Oxi Metoxi — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:57:22 +0000

Hey!
Lovely Finder window! I really hope it looks something like that.
But in the meantime. Do you know a utility which makes tabs in the finder possible?
Ola.