Sanity prevails.

... but I could swear that list view is MUCH faster now than it ever was in Tiger. Usually I'm immune to the placebo "everything's snappy after an update" effect, but I couldn't help being struck by how my apps folder list -- with 200 or so items -- snapped open instantly and scrolled with no hesitation.

and you don't have to click and HOLD like you did in Tiger. Just click once, release, point to the next folder, click.. all the way down. Improvement on Tiger and it is faster!

As long as they don't take away the improvements just to satisfy the bloggers, I'm okay with it. I personally like the grid, and I'd have been upset if we went back to the old days. Navigating a tree structure with lists is horrible. One slip of the mouse and you're back to square one.

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and you don't have to click and HOLD like you did in Tiger. Just click once, release, point to the next folder, click.. all the way down. Improvement on Tiger and it is faster!

You never had to click and hold. Control-clicking (or right-clicking) would bring up the menu immediately, just like everywhere else. One advantage of the Tiger way was that it was much easier to actually open the folder. Clicking opened the folder, control-clicking/right-clicking opened the menu. Now clicking opens the menu and control clicking opens the preferences menu.

It's not a big deal, though. Overall I think Leopard is now better. The fact that you can set the view mode on a per-folder basis is excellent. I have several folders in my Dock, and the different modes are best for different items.

One more thing I wish they'd change is make grid view's icon arrangement mirror the folder's actual icon arrangement, instead of always being sorted. With folders where items come and go a lot, having it constantly re-sort is a hassle, because it forces you to search for commonly-used items every time you need them, instead of knowing exactly where they'll be from habit.

If Apple implemented that change, we'd finally have a real replacement for the pop-up folders of OS 8/9.

What to me is still wrong is that you cannot drag a file to the stack in the dock and have the menu pop up so that you can navigate to the intended drop folder or app. Instead, for me, pop-up folders takes over and after navigating, the final window remains open instead of all collapsing back. Perhaps someone knows a setting to change this behavior.

I hate to tell you, but I am still using Tiger and it works exactly the same way as this much needed improvement in Leopard does. You click once, and the menu window will stay open. There is no holding down needed.


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Oops, I didn't see that somebody already pointed this out.

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UpQuark wrote:
and you don't have to click and HOLD like you did in Tiger. Just click once, release, point to the next folder, click.. all the way down. Improvement on Tiger and it is faster!