Re: Annoying Spotlight result

In article <hhu5n9$ovc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

isw wrote:
On Tiger and Leopard (I don't have the Snow variety), when you have a
spotlight search window open, and select (single-click) one of the found
items, the entire path to that item is revealed across the bottom of the
window.

Ah, when I hear 'ribbon' in a computing context, I think of Microsoft's
recent decision that "toolbar" is no longer an acceptable term.

BUT, Spotlight on my eMac with 10.4.11 does NOT behave that way,
nor can I find anything in its preferences to change it.
Hence, "curiouser and curiouser." In the small window,

- hover puts name and path in a yellow pop-up "tooltip"
- single-click opens the file and closes Spotlight

In the "all items" window (which does not show all items until you
click all of the "more" links!),

- hover does nothing
- single-click selects but does not change what is displayed.
- double-click opens the item and _usually_ scrolls the list
back to the top, but it _does_ leave the item selected in
the list. Yesterday, I had one exception. Now, out of many,
I have one that did not move and two that scrolled a couple of lines.

Double-clicking the desired item's icon *in that path display* behaves
as you say, resetting the selection to the top of the list.

Well, I have no such "path display" in the bottom of the window.
If I click ON the info icon, I get a mini-version of the GetInfo
window, but I get it under the file row, not at the bottom.
If I double-click in that, the file opens and usually the LIST (not the
_selection_) scrolls to the top.

Double-clicking on a found item's icon *directly in the list of found
items* behaves as I said: opening that item and leaving the selection on
that item. In fact, you can run down the list, double-clicking as many
items as you wish, and having all of them open at the same time.

For me, it leaves the selection on the item, but it scrolls the list
to the top. This is proctalgia when the list (as in my most recent
search) contains thousands of items.

I find the path display useful because you can open any part of the path
(say, the folder containing the found item's containing folder) by
double-clicking it; sometimes you want to locate the place you put
something rather than the thing itself.

Hmmm, no matter where I double-click in mine, I open the actual file.

One of us must have some sort of hack installed.

Well, it behaves the same way on my wife's Mini with Tiger, and I did
that install fresh from the Apple-provided discs not two weeks ago.

Here's a screenshot I just took of a search window:

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/isw/

I annotated it with a green oval to show where to click, and a red one
to show where not to. Does your search window look different?

Isaac
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