09-25-2008, 02:16 AM
Yeah, 10.5 has a bad habit of reusing windows. 10.4 also did it to a limited extent, but 10.5 seems to treat every window as a portal, which can make things confusing when it shows two views of the same thing.
It's easy to illustrate by putting a folder with an open window in the Trash, then emptying it. Instead of closing the window as the Trash is emptied, it fills the vacated window with a view of another folder, typically the parent directory of the folder that was just deleted.
The (good) rules of the Classic Mac OS no longer apply, which can be frustrating if you're a vet and not a Switcher who doesn't realize that Apple no longer follows some of the rules that made the Mac UI great.
It's easy to illustrate by putting a folder with an open window in the Trash, then emptying it. Instead of closing the window as the Trash is emptied, it fills the vacated window with a view of another folder, typically the parent directory of the folder that was just deleted.
The (good) rules of the Classic Mac OS no longer apply, which can be frustrating if you're a vet and not a Switcher who doesn't realize that Apple no longer follows some of the rules that made the Mac UI great.