Google| Subject | Re: Any Minolta/Sony users using UFRaw and GIMP? |
| From | nospam |
| Date | 04/09/2014 23:07 (04/09/2014 17:07) |
| Message-ID | <090420141707456926%nospam@nospam.invalid> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | sid |
| Followups | sid (1d & 18m) > nospam |
In article <3427439.qGt61W0gve@thecrap.blueyonder.co.uk>, sid <sidney@sidshouse.net>wrote:
very little of what you've said about macs has been accurate.sidAlan Brownenospamsid
finder is part of the operating system. it's always running. it's 'the desktop'. users don't 'run' finder.
It's an app that's autostarted when you log in. It lives at /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
notice the .app at the end.
You're being pedantic. The Finder is part of the middle-are that is an integral part of OS X and its UI. No different than a folder view in Unity.
No, just being accurate.
Finder is run as part of the UI, it's not part of the OS. You are correct in saying "No different than a folder view in Unity." though in my case Dolphin in KDEnope. finder is part of the os, ships with the os and isn't anything that can be changed.
if you want to draw a line in the sand (something which is pointless but you seem to want to do it anyway), then it would be between the darwin kernel and everything above it (cocoa, carbon, foundation, aqua, quartz, quicktime and more).
removing finder is a huge detriment to mac os. it has numerous negative side effects, including preventing the user from launching apps and potentially making the system non-bootable in some cases. it's not done.Alan Brownesid
Finder is "middleware" that is part and parcel of OS X as a distribution. The user doesn't add it (as he would The Gimp or dcraw) it is there. Indeed it's not possible to casually remove it from the dock (it can be done but so indirectly as to be unknown by 99% of OS X users).
Anyone who wants to can find out how with a cursory google search. Apparently it can be done and with no detriment to the OS. There are third party replacements out there so one does not need the finder supplied by Apple. It's crap anyway according to nospam.
the third party finder replacements can't completely replace finder even if the user wanted to, plus they are worse than finder is anyway. they are normally run alongside finder, with the user just ignoring finder most of the time.
it's no secret i don't like finder but it mostly does what it claims, just not particularly well, and with some very stupid bugs.
mac os x.sidAll of this is pointless, I'm just trying to point out that your mac isn't some wonder machine that can do loads of things no one else can, it's just a computer and works like other computers. It's not magic.Alan Browne
No - but it is delivered with photographic workflow in mind - including in Finder.
So what is delivered with a new Mac that is particularly with a photographic workflow in mind, that isn't delivered with other OS'
04/05/2014-
