Missing from WWDC 2006: The Finder - not a word

Apple always update Finder - there's always something new - the fact it wasn't mentioned either means it's insignificant or top secret and major; I would bet the latter. The fact that iChat is now sporting a platinum look and tabbed browsing means I expect Finder to at least the updated to be the same - Safari will need an update as well - I don't see that black button staying - it stands out like a sore-thumb and it is not the most important button in Safari.

I'm glad someone finally mentioned PathFinder - it's a totally brilliant replacement for Finder. So please, everyone, stop bleating about Finder and go get PathFinder. You will NOT be disappointed. I have not used Finder since early in 2005 and find PF an absolute delight to use.

#37: Unfortunately, that's just a screenshot of PathFinder, a Finder replacement app that's been out for years:

http://cocoatech.com/

It even says so up in the top left of the menubar when you look at the image in full size from your direct link to it.

Opps i take that back actually... Wrong Hyperlinks.. Sorry

Actually.. Looks like somebody slipped bigtime.. Check this out

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/2228_large_osx_desktop.jpg

Original story here:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3689

I totally agree. Everyone who recieved a developers kit preview this year at the WWDC was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Which means "Better not say a thing, or else" in legal terms. There's a lot more to this OS than they are showing us. Hence why the first feature Steve Jobs listed @ the keynote was "Top Secret". Notice the imense laughter in the crowd. Sounds like an inside joke to me. Like they know something we don't!

Did anyone notice the "RSS Feeds" buttton in Mail.app?
And what about the french guy talking about Spotlight for searching files and the web?

Or maybe he meant "this is your standard , out of the box, everyday finder."

The fact that they showed finder in Time Machine is really disappointing to me. If indeed the Finder is getting a massive rewrite, it would not make much sense to use it in Time Machine, because they would have to just massively rewrite Time Machine once the new finder got in. Much as people want to believe this would be drop in, that's not how it works. They'd have to start testing all over.

No, my suspicion is that we're not getting anything really earth shatteringly new on Finder. And anyone who says "oooh, quicksilver solves all of Finders problems..." You did notice the part where Spotlight now is more of a launcher. Apple is trying to take Quicksilver out of the picture like they did with Konfabulator.

One of the guys, when demonstrating TimeMachine (I think it was) said here's your "standard" Mac OS Finder. To me this might imply that there's another version of the Finder- and he slipped by differentiating the present Finder from something else

let us think creative.
we see a new core animation.
we see the use of it for the Time Machine.
in a dedicated user interface form factor.

i imagine wether the new finder will use the core animation a lot.

what do you think?
osx 10 or osx 11?

chao