{"id":190,"date":"2009-01-10T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-01-10T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T17:55:08","slug":"os-x-inconsistent-file-picker-ui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/10\/os-x-inconsistent-file-picker-ui\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X Inconsistent File Picker UI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m still quite enjoying my Macbook. \u00a0The biggest complaint I&#8217;ve got so far is the inconsistency of the file pickers. \u00a0These are things where my wife has said, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t working, look.&#8221; \u00a0And low-and-behold, due to some coder out there being too smart for their own good, have broken the file picker in various unusual ways.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When uploading a file to a website, the file picker that pops up does not let you navigate into your iPhoto Library. \u00a0The only way to get a picture out of it appears to be to open up iPhoto and drag a picture from iPhoto onto the Browse button on the website.<\/li>\n<li>When changing your desktop background, accessing your iPhoto Library requires clicking on the little arrow to the left of the words &#8220;iPhoto Library&#8221; .. The whole word should be clickable.<\/li>\n<li>My wife was confused by this and didn&#8217;t click the arrow and gave up. \u00a0Instead she tried last night&#8217;s work-a-round and loaded up iPhoto and tried dragging pictures from iPhoto into the &#8220;Pictures Folder&#8221; area. \u00a0This didn&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li>Since we have 10,000 some odd pictures, the mini iPhoto Library browser that appears when you click the arrow is pretty much useless. \u00a0Especially how it removes the year from the listing. \u00a0So the only reasonable way we could figure to get a background picture chosen was to open the Finder and attempt to drag pictures from iPhoto onto the Pictures folder. \u00a0Talk about taking the long way.<\/li>\n<li>When selecting a photo in the Finder and then pressing Delete, it doesn&#8217;t do anything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>So it seems there are at least 3 sorts of file pickers in OS X that I&#8217;ve seen so far. \u00a0They don&#8217;t work consistently. \u00a0As my father-in-law says, &#8220;They (Macs) are better than computers used to be, but they still aren&#8217;t any good for dummies like me.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m still quite enjoying my Macbook. \u00a0The biggest complaint I&#8217;ve got so far is the inconsistency of the file pickers. \u00a0These are things where my wife has said, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t working, look.&#8221; \u00a0And low-and-behold, due to some coder out there being too smart for their own good, have broken the file picker in various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,96,98,94,97],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple","tag-macs","tag-nonsense","tag-osx","tag-user-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}