Leopard finder clone

[razar45]

does anyone know of the best leopard finder clone and dont recomend styler toolbar or neXPlorer i am running vista home preimum.

[Desides]

There are no Leopard Finder clones currently available. The Tiger Finder clones have all been dead projects for years, in addition.

[razar45]

Can anyone make a good leopard finder clone i mean why not start the project up again?

[Raats]

Can anyone make a good leopard finder clone i mean why not start the project up again?

As a Leopard user myself, I believe the best (read: "reliable") Win clone to emulate the finder is still Explorer with Tom's Effect's FindeXer installed. Really, the only thing you don't have is coverflow and that emulation option is being looked at by a few developers.

Looking at the Mac finder vs Win explorer the only aesthetic difference (If you have installed a leopard theme using styler, wb or visual styles and FindeXer) is that there is a slightly ugly thick grey line between the sidebar the main window (whereas Leopard has the very thin dark-grey line).

For normal browsing, the above application emulates the Mac Finder almost perfectly, so its hard to imagine what more (other than a thin line and coverflow), you would want.

Windows is not OS X and therefore a compromise will realistically need to be made. If you are absolutely certain you have to have a perfect OS X environment, then I suggest you get a Mac.

Good luck

[Björn]

But findexer won´t work with Vista, does it?

[alabanco]

the only thing you don't have is coverflow and that emulation option is being looked at by a few developers.

Looking at the Mac finder vs Win explorer the only aesthetic difference (If you have installed a leopard theme using styler, wb or visual styles and FindeXer) is that there is a slightly ugly thick grey line between the sidebar the main window (whereas Leopard has the very thin dark-grey line).

For normal browsing, the above application emulates the Mac Finder almost perfectly, so its hard to imagine what more (other than a thin line and coverflow), you would want.

I agree that Explorer + Findexer is the best emulation. BUT

imho I need column view more than coverflow (since I move staff and column view is perfect idea for moving staff) the tabs approach is not that brilliant,

But I will agree with you Raats and want to update your saing - if you want to have a perfect OS environment, then I suggest you get a Mac.

[Raats]

I agree that Explorer + Findexer is the best emulation. BUT

imho I need column view more than coverflow (since I move staff and column view is perfect idea for moving staff) the tabs approach is not that brilliant,

But I will agree with you Raats and want to update your saing - if you want to have a perfect OS environment, then I suggest you get a Mac.

Agreed mate!!

I guess I made the mistake of assuming most windows users would not use (or really know of) the great functionality of the column view...

BTW, not being that clued up on Vista, I have no idea if FindeXer works with that OS - Sorry Björn.

[razar45]

Yeah i have vista i cant use styler or finderxer

ok wait lol i got finderxer to work with explorer but what about the ugly toolbar does anyone know of a styler toolbar for vista?

[MyCousinVinny]

fellas i recommend u wait, finder clone hope is not lost. These guys have a new finder clone but it runs with the shells(system files) and the best part is there now testing so there almost done

http://cairoshell.com/

Its not exactly like Leopard or Tiger but its better

To see a good picture go here:

http://www.cairoshell.com/images/Explorer_Desktop_M1.jpg

and heres the old ones:

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread....highlight=cairo

[yahooplop]

ok wait lol i got finderxer to work with explorer but what about the ugly toolbar does anyone know of a styler toolbar for vista?

Wow, ur using one with Vista? how? Which version?

[razar45]

how i really dunno i just did and what version it is home premium

[razar45]

ok i have decided to try and make one myself for no reason at all and i have 54 lines of code and all i have is this (i am using C#) So wish me luck!

look at this sorry looking code...well it seems to be working out ok

[razar45]

only thing is...does anyone know where i work...an apple retail store...mac gallery lol

[SbuxBlaze]

@razar45, nice attempt and lol. But please stop tripple posting it gets annoying

[razar45]

Yeah ill stop sorry

[alilm]

I reckon this would be easy using the Adobe Air platform? Plus it would also work on Linux that way. Always a plus!

[Björn]

qrazar45 , any news on your finder. Looked promissing.

[alilm]

I did this in about 3 hours with adobe air (I had to learn it from scratch). The very. very basic element of this is working fine i.e. it can list folders, thats pretty much it but obviously if anyone actually wants to do this now it can be done. If anyone wants the source code i'm more than happy to hand it over.

Whats in the source:

- Custom window + resizing

- Javascript listing of directories

I've written this on my mac but obviously it would work on Linux and Windows too.

I'm not going to do this myself as I don't know how many people really want this but I'm giving the oppurtunity to anyone else who wants to give it a shot.

[alilm]

Because adobe air is javascript/ajax based integrating a coverflow sorta thing would be simple pimple

[memepea13]

so hows it going razar45? im waiting expectantly, it looks great

[aozoi10]

I hope there's been progress, but we can only hope for the best.

Hey alilm, do you have that source code for the thing you were working on? It also looks promising

[schmrom]

Maybe a windows developer which has good knowledge of programming wiht e.g. C# should try to develop something...

[memepea13]

i have a little c# knowledge so i could try something with that but otherwise i think adobe air would be easier to make it in. so do you have that source code alilm?