http://www.macintouch.com/mosxreader10.2pt12.html
Carlton Hogan wrote in reply to my post:
But Derek Tom wrote in about his frustration over lack of a path backward display in panel view. I can't say whether this is the case in Jaguar, but in OS 10.1x, if you go to finder preferences, there are a number of new icons you can drag to the window bar, including a path pull down. Hope this helps.In reply to Carton's feedback, I'd like to thank him for his suggestion but clarify that the pop-down path menu is not what I was after. Here's what I said:
This is not the same as Jaguar's "Path" pop-down menu item (or Command-clicking a window title) — with that, you can't just type in a path you might know (e.g. /docs/work/jobs), you can only navigate backwards, and you can't copy any part of the path you're in.If there were some instructions that said to go to the following path and delete a few files there, wouldn't it be nice to be able to just copy the line of text, paste it into a field in a window toolbar, and hit enter to go directly there?
/Library/Application Support/Coco Doodle/Candy Dandy
This is just like pasting a URL into a Web browser's location/address field. It's much more efficient than double-clicking folders one level at a time, particularly when some of the folders have tons of files that make moving to the next level down very slow.
Likewise, if you were giving some instructions to a friend and wanted to tell him to go to a certain folder that was several levels deep, wouldn't it be nice to just copy out the path from a text field in a window toolbar and then paste that into your email to your friend?
With a pop-down menu you can't copy and paste paths and you can only navigate backwards. With a path field you can copy and paste paths and you can navigate both backwards and forwards.
Both Windows and Linux GUIs have this feature (in Windows it's the "Address Bar" and in Linux's Gnome it's the "Location Bar").
Posted by derek at September 10, 2002 10:49 PM