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The Bad: Continued

6. The new Finder defeats spatial orientation.

Explanation: The Finder has been the single most important and influential application in the Mac OS user experience. Since 1984, the foundation of the classic Mac OS Finder has been the concept of spatial orientation. To quote Bruce Tognazzini again, 'spatial orientation' includes 'not only the nesting of folders within folders, but being able to recognize a window based on its size, shape, and the layout and coloring of the objects within.'This idea is directly analogous to how people organize and find items in real life. If you fold up a newspaper and place it on the upper-left corner of your desk when you arrive at the office, three hours later when you're about to go on your lunch break you expect to look at the upper-left corner of your desk and find a folded newspaper.Another example: every house has an organizer, someone who cleans up junk drawers, arranges canned goods in cabinets, files important documents, etc. If you are not that person but you know that the scissors are 'in the kitchen,' you may have some difficulty finding them. But ask 'the organizer' where the scissors are and she (it's usually a 'she' in my experience) will immediately say 'in the third drawer from the left, in the back of the drawer, under the tape measure.' Why does she know this? Because that's where she put it, and in a sane world, things stay where you put them.Now then, there's no reason that computer interfaces must exactly duplicate real life. In fact, that is often exactly the wrong thing to do. (See the 'thumb-wheel' volume control on the QuickTime 4 Player for an example.) But in the case of spatial orientation in the Finder, it has proven to be a resounding success.That's not to say that there aren't problems. As the number of items the user is expected to manage has increased over the years, spatial orientation in the Finder has become strained. To help manage the increased complexity, Apple has steadily improved the Finder, adding pop-up tabbed folders, spring-loaded folders, a customizable Apple Menu, new views and sorting patterns, and so on. But the concept of spatial orientation has remained firmly entrenched: windows and icons go where you move them and stay where you put them.With Mac OS X, Apple has decided that spatial orientation is no longer up to the task of helping users manage the complexity of the modern computer. They added a file browser interface inherited from NeXT and have steadily removed the traditional spatial functionality. The Mac community has complained, and Apple has responded by putting a few minor spatial orientation feature back in the Finder: the default action when dragging to the desktop now matches the behavior in classic Mac OS, double-clicking a folder can optionally open a new window, removable media may optionally appear on the desktop, etc.

The problem is, the OS X Finder as of Public Beta is still predominantly non-spatial. Even with all the classic-like options enabled, the behavior is still not even close to the spatial orientation of the classic Mac OS Finder. Windows try to remember their view modes and screen positions, but this feature is easily, frequently, and often accidentally defeated through the use of basic Finder functionality. For example, the folder hierarchy pop-up menu and the back button in the Finder toolbar always replace the contents of the current window when used, regardless of your preference settings for the double-click behavior. An example scenario:

Your home directory is open in a square icon-view window in the upper-right of your screen.
Your documents folder is open in a tall rectangular list-view window in the lower left of your screen.
You minimize your home directory window.
Some time later, you're working with your documents folder and you want to go up one level to your home directory, so you select it from the hierarchy pop-up menu in the window toolbar.
This causes contents of your list-view window to be replaced with the contents of your home directory. They're in icon view, and the icon positions are the same, but the size and position of the window are that of the documents window whose contents they replaced. Your minimized home directory window remains minimized in the Dock.
You maximize your home directory window. It appears in its former position and size in the upper-right of your screen. Now you've got two windows showing the contents of the same folder in two different places on your screen.

This is but one of the many confusing, spatially inconsistent scenarios that is possible with the OS X Finder. I was tempted to just chalk it up to understandable beta bugs, but the unavoidable question is this: how is it supposed to work then? The combination of in-place browser-style functions and the totally new concept of creating a 'New Finder Window' (which is incidentally bound to command-n, destroying 16 years worth of muscle memory in the millions of Mac users who expect that sequence to create a new folder) necessarily compromises the spatial nature of the Finder.

Again, that's not necessarily a bad thing, provided this time-tested and heavily evolved functional interface is replaced with something better (it's not enough just to equal the old interface since a shift in something as fundamental as the Finder had better be worth throwing away almost two decades of familiarity for.)

Unfortunately, the OS X Finder as it exists in Public Beta does not achieve this goal. Worse, it not only removes all the evolutionary additions to the classic spatial Finder (pop-up tabbed folders, spring-loaded folders, etc.), it entirely compromises the spatial metaphor itself. Just imagine if that folded newspaper you put on the corner of your desk wasn't there a few hours later, or was there but unfolded, or was under your chair. You'd start to think someone was toying with you, or maybe that you're going senile. For a spatially oriented system to be effective, it must be absolutely consistent.

Replacing the spatial Finder is OS X Beta is an extremely limited browser interface that has an entire problem set of its own.

Even within the realm of the limited spatially oriented features of the new Finder, there are more problems to be found. The most glaring is the insane minimum window size discussed earlier. It makes common window aspect ratios impossible, primarily the 'tall, skinny list-view window' and the 'wide, thin icon-view window,' both of which are often left open and used as quick-access points by Mac OS 9 users. (More on quick-access points in Mac OS X later.) There's also the excessively wide, unadjustable icon grid spacing, and the inability to toggle grid behavior on a per-drag basis via a modifier key (although these may just be beta bugs and/or unimplemented features.)

Solutions:Either create a non-spatial Finder so intuitive, efficient, and powerful that we'll all forget about the classic Mac OS Finder, or be sure to implement all of the spatial features of the classic Finder in OS X. Guess which one of those options I think is the easiest to accomplish. People have been trying to out-do the classic spatial Finder for years with little success. It doesn't appear that Apple is doing any better so far.In my opinion, Apple should stick to the old spatial metaphor, at least in the short term during the transition to Mac OS X. Bruce Tognazzini sums it uplike this:

With the Mac, you have always had the power to move around and organize applications and documents in your own virtual space, maintaining a neat or cluttered workspace, as is your habit. Other desktop systems, from Windows to Unix, have depended more on abstraction, forcing users to remember the location of objects in complex hierarchies. In theory, all of this reduced clutter, but it really only moved the clutter from the visible desktop to the back of your mind. Since most of us work better with visible clutter than with rote memorization, our efficiency drops.

7. The Finder's 'Column View' lacks flexibility.

Explanation: The new Finder's 'Column View' browser mode is handicapped by a lack of flexibility. We'll start from the top: in the screenshot above you can see the row of large buttons. Those buttons can actually appear on any Finder window, but I'm addressing them here because they're most associated with the browser-like functionality of column view. The buttons replace the contents of the window they're attached to with the contents of several common folders: the user's home directory, the applications folder, etc. They are also assigned the key sequence equivalents command-1 through command-6. Shortcuts are convenient, but it's shortsighted to think that every user will want shortcuts to the 6 locations Apple has chosen for them, and unfortunately that toolbar is not configurable (without some resource hacking, anyway.) Furthermore, it's also short-sighted to assume that the same set of shortcut buttons should be on every window. The NeXT file browser from which the interface is derived was much more flexible in this respect.

The next problem involves the columns themselves: they're not resizable. Well, they do expand and shrink as the window size changes, but they do so in unison, and when they reach certain widths the number of columns either increases or decreases (to a minimum of 2) depending on whether the window is getting smaller or larger. This system assumes that every column of information needs the same width as every other column, which is not the case in practice. The maximum width of the columns is also too narrow for 'long' file names (greater than 30 characters or so) which seems silly considering that one of Mac OS X's touted features is support for 255 character file names.

Finally, the only column sorting choice is alphabetical. I don't think I've ever seen a list-like view in a file navigation application that wasn't able to be sorted based on more than one criterion.

Solutions: Make the buttons in the toolbar customizable on a per-directory basis, make the column widths independently resizable, add the usual sorting choices, and include a setting to define the maximum column width before columns multiply and the minimum column width before columns disappear.

8. Font sizes are not adjustable.

Explanation: Font sizes in the Finder are not adjustable. This is especially vexing in list-view windows. The default font size is considerably larger than that found in classic Mac OS. This in and of itself is actually a good idea. Screen resolutions have increased over time, and 10-point Geneva (the Mac OS 9 default) may be too small for a lot of users on a modern 1024x768 or larger monitor. But advanced users typically want to jam the most information possible into every corner of the screen. The new, larger default font does not allow nearly as many visible characters in a given screen area.

Solutions: Make font sizes adjustable.

9. The Finder's popup-menus are not friendly

Explanation: In the screenshot above you can see the potition of the menu that pops up when the highlighted area of the Finder's toolbar pop-up menu widget is clicked. It's about an inch from the cursor, which is much too far away in my opinion. Obviously that pop-up menu doesn't need to be as wide as it is.

Solutions: Make pop-up menus only as wide as they need to be to promote easier operation.

Interested in trying out Apple’s next Mac operating system? You’re in luck, because Apple has just released the macOS High Sierra Public Beta.

Apple announced the operating system earlier this month at its Worldwide Developers Conference. This version is more of a maintenance release, so it’s not a major overhaul of macOS. But it does have several new features, including a new file system, smoother video playback and support for HEVC video, and improved Siri. The Photos app and Safari also have improvements. Learn more about the features and specifications of macOS High Sierra.

Heres what you need to know to get the macOS High Sierra Public Beta running on your Mac.

What is the macOS High Sierra Public Beta?

macOS High Sierra is the next version of the Mac operating system. The final version will be available this fall. Apple is making a public beta version available for people to try out, test against their favorite software, and report bugs to the company.

Since this is beta software, there’s a good chance it could cause problems on your Mac. You may encounter frequent freezes and crashes, or your apps may not work.

Should you install the macOS High Sierra Public Beta?

We advise against installing the beta on a production Mac or any other Mac you depend on and need to keep running. If you’re worried that a beta flaw will prevent you from using your Mac, don’t install it.

However, if you do decide to try the beta, you can provide Apple with valuable feedback. Install it on a Mac that you consider a secondary computer.

What should you do before installing it?

Back up your Mac. You can use Time Machine or whatever backup setup you already have. You need a backup you can use that you can revert to in case you need to stop using the beta and need to restore your system.

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