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Ah, well aside from the tabs, suggestions, and new address bar everything is reversible through the preferences or a built in toggle. The stuff that isn't reversible that way can be done using the Terminal.

I like it alright when I'm doing a Spotlight search but when I'm just looking at a random folder full of images, selecting all, activating Quicklook, and then navigating with the arrow keys works as good, if not better, for me. For regular navigating, uh uh, no, no way, forget it.

When did this become a thread about cover flow hate?

I like cover flow. I've used it to browse a folder full of images, though I admit that the index sheet in Quicklook is better for that. I've wished I had cover flow in 'Open' dialog windows.

Cover flow is my main view in iTunes, but only because it looks cool.

Ehh, at work I recently did some usability testing with a coverflow thumbnail browsing compared a grid view or horizontal lists. People were able to find and compare a large amount thumbnails faster when they weren't using coverflow.

ukimalefu wrote:

When did this become a thread about cover flow hate?

From here

Donkey Butter wrote:

I wish apple would quit trying to jam cover flow down our throats. it has got to be the most useless way ever created to navigate.

and here

Jasoco wrote:

Coverflow is useless for ANYTHING except iTunes, and I only use it in iTunes for the look. It's useless for images. Icon view shows more than Coverflow does. Apple went too far and thinks way too highly of CoverFlow IMHO. I would rather it just die and stay in iTunes where it belongs.

ScifiterX wrote:

Seriously, listen to yourself a moment. There are holes in your argument that I could drive a Mack truck through.

They can only in be increased to that size in icon View (which is not at all suited to History and poorly suited to regular bookmarks) and to try to do that size in list view would waste far greater space than cover flow does.

Also just because you obviously missed it the first time

ScifiterX wrote:

You can shrink Coverflow so only the resize toggle & search field remain if you want.
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4012/searchl.th.jpg

I hope that wasn't aimed at me because it would be silly if it was.

Show me the holes.

No, wait. Don't. I'm done with this thread. I use Safari for testing. I use FireFox for actual browsing. See ya.

Jasoco wrote:

ScifiterX wrote:

Seriously, listen to yourself a moment. There are holes in your argument that I could drive a Mack truck through.

They can only in be increased to that size in icon View (which is not at all suited to History and poorly suited to regular bookmarks) and to try to do that size in list view would waste far greater space than cover flow does.

Also just because you obviously missed it the first time

ScifiterX wrote:

You can shrink Coverflow so only the resize toggle & search field remain if you want.
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4012/searchl.th.jpg

I hope that wasn't aimed at me because it would be silly if it was.

Show me the holes.

No, wait. Don't. I'm done with this thread. I use Safari for testing. I use FireFox for actual browsing. See ya.

Again with the not reading I've already pointed out two.

ScifiterX wrote:

They can only in be increased to that size in icon View (which is not at all suited to History and poorly suited to regular bookmarks) and to try to do that size in list view would waste far greater space than cover flow does.

To further flesh out those points:

On a commonly used 1680*1050 screen, even with grid spacing set to it's tightest, you are limited to 45 full sized icons in Icon view with heavily truncated labels, assuming the labels are set to the bottom of the Icon, or 30 assuming they are set to the right of the icon. In List view (supposing for the moment you could set the icons to Icon views full size for a moment) you would get all of 6 or seven items on the screen at any given time but have info list with a relative minimum of truncation. With Coverflow in Safari set how I have it set, I have 21 items in the list with a minimum of truncation as well as 3 obvious useful thumbnails and 14 partially  obscured thumbnails visible in Coverflow at any given time at sizes bigger than the full size of the standard icons and with relatively untruncated information displayed the selected item.

As mreet just mentioned, in it easier to miss an item outside of a linear progression. Icon view is not a linear progression format. List View & Coverflow are linear progression formats. With regular Bookmarks linear progression matters far less but then there is the issue of deal with a hierarchy. Neither Icon View or Coverflow not handle hierarchy well without outside manipulation. That is something where the list view is far stronger (and which frankly explains why Coverflow is tied to the List view).

But then again you did say you were done with this thread so I'm just saying it so it can't be said that I never answered you.

Last edited by ScifiterX (2009-03-01 10:21 pm)