Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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CHAPTER 1 WORKING IN LEOPARD: THE AQUA INTERFACE
Figure 1-19. Leopard’s default desktop with the Dock at the bottom and the menu bar at the top
Setting General Options
Table 1-2 describes the Finder’s General preferences (shown in Figure 1-20), which cover a few
general Finder behaviors.
Table 1-2. Finder General Preferences
Preference Description
Show these items on the Desktop This offers three check boxes to determine what sort of
devices will automatically show up on the Desktop.
New Finder windows open This is a drop-down list that determines where a newly
opened Finder window will start by default (this is where you
begin when you open a new Finder window from the Finder’s
File menu or when you click the Finder icon in the Dock).
Always open folders in a new window This check box, if checked, will cause all folders clicked in
the Finder to open a new window rather than to open the
contents of the folder in the existing window.
Spring-loaded folder and windows This is a nice feature in OS X that helps in moving Finder
items. When activated, if you drag and hold a Finder item
over a folder for a period of time, that folder will spring open
to reveal its contents. This way, you can move an item into a
deep folder structure without first having to open the
destination folder beforehand. The Delay bar indicates how
long it takes for the folder to spring open.