Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
by chrisseaton on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:52PM
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> That's only if the app is already open. If you Quit Finder when no windows are open, the first click opens no windows.
I'm not sure what you're talking about - you cannot quit Finder and the app is always open. You can only force restart it but it is never in a quit state for you to do what you're say you're doing, and if you do force-start it it behaves as already described.
Re:How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
by qubitcoder on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:43PM
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Try closing Finder and report back ;-).
And that was definitely a bug at one point. Whenever I encountered it years ago, I was always bemused thinking about how a typical user would ever figure out how to open Finder and get to their files. No matter how many times you clicked the dock icon, the window would never appear. Of course, I know to use Cmd+N; and nowadays, a new Finder window opens as expected when clicked.
Arguably, it's intuitive:
* If you know what you are doing, you can go to the menu bar or click on the icon again.
* If you don't know know what you are doing, the obvious action is to blame yourself and click the icon again, which does open a window (to the Recents folder). So it's gaslighting a little, but it is intuitive.