Ancestors

Written by Scott Jenson on 2024-12-18 at 21:43

One of my earliest UX wins was for Mac System 7. The Finder team wanted to truncate files names with '…' if it wouldn’t fit. I argued that too much critical info would be lost and suggested it be in the middle instead. The Finder team loved it and implemented it later that day. They were so easy to work with.

I'd totally forgotten about it until I overheard someone commenting it was an example of Apple's attention to detail. I'd didn't say anything at the time but yeah, that was me ;-)

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Written by child of baphomet on 2024-12-19 at 00:22

@scottjenson is there a way to disable it?

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Toot

Written by Andrew on 2024-12-19 at 09:16

@shram86 @scottjenson get a bigger screen? ;)

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Descendants

Written by child of baphomet on 2024-12-19 at 13:37

@puck @scottjenson spoken like a true apple developer

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Written by Scott Jenson on 2024-12-22 at 16:06

@shram86 @puck no there is no way to disable it. Not everything needs to be a setting (I realize this is a deep belief in the FOSS world). It's a complex topic

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Written by child of baphomet on 2024-12-22 at 16:28

@scottjenson @puck spoken like a true apple developer

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Written by Scott Jenson on 2024-12-22 at 16:43

@shram86 No need to be snarky. I acknowledged your point! Can't we disagree like humans?

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