Rumor: Snow Leopard to have rewritten Finder

Posted by Rob Beschizza, October 18, 2008 8:02 PM | permalink

AppleInsider reports on what it thinks is coming in Snow Leopard: a new finder rewritten in Cocoa (the current one being the last remaining Carbon component of OSX), as well as rewrites of the Apple-authored apps that come with the system; Microsoft Exchange support; and multiple boot partitions.

In other words, nothing sexy: Snow Leopard is mostly about the technical elegance that leads to stable and reliable computing, which is exactly what we wanted. For great justice!, etc.

Apple's Snow Leopard to sport Cocoa Finder and ImageBoot [Apple Insider]

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#1 posted by zuzu

, October 18, 2008 9:24 PM

In other words, nothing sexy: Snow Leopard is mostly about the technical elegance that leads to stable and reliable computing, which is exactly what we wanted. For great justice!, etc.

It'd be nice if the Apple developers also include full ZFS / RAID-Z, full resolution independence, and now that Firewire is being deprecated, official support for iSCSI.

Also, is QuickTime really Carbon-free as of version 7? or will that wait for QuickTime X?

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#2 posted by yer_maw , October 19, 2008 6:30 AM

please oh please give us tabs in finder.

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#3 posted by annunmi , October 19, 2008 7:55 AM

Doesn't this rumor come out with every iteration of Mac OS X? I've given up hoping. All I really want is cut and paste. I guess I'm stuck with Pathfinder.

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#4 posted by zuzu

, October 19, 2008 9:06 AM

please oh please give us tabs in finder.

Tabs suck. Windows suck more, but tabs still suck. What doesn't suck is a buffer list, like in EMACS or GNU Screen.

On a typical day with a tabbed browser, I have about 10 windows open, and each of them have about 20-30 tabs open. Then one of them starts playing audio... but which one? Or, where did I leave that tab with the comment I was writing before I was interrupted by real work?

Finder has enough UI problems without introducing tabs.

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#5 posted by Kyle Armbruster , October 19, 2008 11:40 PM

I don't think you need that many web pages open. Seriously, I don't.

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#6 posted by GeekMan , October 20, 2008 3:55 PM

technical elegance IS sexy