ultrarunner

*sigh*....whatever happened to selecting the folder in osx and hitting the return key and typing the new name

Alan2005

Well, sure. Competition creates innovation - the way it should be.

Alan2005

Doesn't that open the file? Because that's what I'd expect it to do. Return to rename seems a bit counter intuitive to me.

Edit: Apparently it does. Can't say I'm impressed by that; it's not obvious that's what you have to do. An explicit right click rename option should exist like it does on all other OS's.

rubberduckofdeath

Me too.

MikeUK

I’m not so sure that Mac drove the windows GUI evolution as many think, Xerox started it, the Apple Lisa put it on the map and promptly dropped off Windows Beta’s existed back in 1983, Lotus Notes was another GUI contender that did well for a while, The Xserver in Unix lead the way in real graphics (SGI), the Mac itself didn’t exist until 1984, in its early days its didn’t even really exist on the PC radar screen at all, yes the Mac was the only one with a standard GUI up till about 1990 (but stupidly expensive priced at a SGI workstation level, but with hardware just comparable to a i386 at a quarter the price)with PC’s it was an option from 1984 onwards and one you had choices with and with color, the first Mac's uptill 1990 were black and white and small, its only in the last few years (around the time of XP) you could say that the Mac system started to drive any real competition, by which time both options were well entrenched within there respective markets, and the only real competition was in the computer magazines reviewers minds

Tangram

Right Click and select Get Info....you rename in there as far as I am aware.

Alan2005

Ah, ok. Now I know that return does it I'm happy to just do that. I honestly didn't know you could do that (hat tip to ultrarunner). I've been doing this delayed click thing since I got it and it's really frustrating when you get it wrong and the file is opened. Especially when it's a video file associated with an app that runs full screen like xbmc. Maybe I should have googled it earlier - oh well that will teach me.

ultrarunner

Don't know if that was a compliment? After all am not a self confessed "Geeky enough to bite" type, and even my teenager knows how to do that. I guess at the end of it all, we are all human innit? LOL

Alan2005

It was a thank you for the useful tip.

ultrarunner

Good to know am good for somfink ...........de rien

Atlantic Xpat

Were'nt Atari computers also early innovators of the GUI interface? I had an Atari "mega 1" ST when I was a student in the late 80's & it was considered the cheaper alternative to the Mac.

Aviator

Parc that came up with the GUI, the mouse and a host of other stuff.

jimmydean

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/s...-201110064389/

Mizz Teapot

dbd33

Was "I have an app for that" Apple's slogan? I seem to have lived beyond the reach of their adverts.