Visual QuickStart Guide [Electronic resources] : Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger نسخه متنی

1.

In the Finder Preferences window, click the General button to display General options (Figure 2 ).

2.

Toggle check boxes to specify what items should appear on the desktop:

Hard disks displays icons for mounted hard disks.








CDs, DVDs, and iPods displays icons for removable media, including CDs and DVDs, as well as iPods.








Connected servers displays icons for mounted server volumes.

3.

Choose an option from the pop-up menu (Figure 3 ) to determine what should appear in a new Finder window (the window that appears when you choose File > New Finder Window):

Computer displays the icons for the network
and all mounted volumes (Figure 4 ).







Figure 4, 5, 6, & 7. A new Finder window can display the top-level computer window, your hard disk contents, your Home folder contents, or your Documents folder contents.





Figure 6 ).








Documents displays the contents of the Documents folder inside your Home folder (Figure 7 ).








Other displays the Choose a Folder dialog (Figure 8 ), which you can use to select a different folder to display.







Figure 8. Use a dialog like this to display a specific folder when you open a new Finder window.

4.

Toggle check boxes to set other options:

Always open folders in a new window opens a new window to display the contents of the folder you open. This makes Mac OS X work more like Mac OS 9.2 and earlier.

Open new windows in column view opens all new windows in column view, regardless of which view was last used to view the window.

Spring-loaded folders and windows enables the spring-loaded folders feature. You can use the slider to set the delay time for this feature.