[thought_alarm]

> Those files should only be created if the user actually makes adjustments to the view settings or set a manual location for icons in a folder. That’s unfortunately not what happens and visiting a folder pretty much guarantees that a .DS_Store file will get created

This is my number one frustration with the Finder.

You can customize the look and size of individual folder windows in many interesting ways, al a the Classic Mac OS Finder, which is a really great feature. But if you blow through that same folder in a browser window then most of those customization are lost, overwritten with the settings of that browser window, even if you never change anything.

What's the point of allowing all of these great customizations when they're so easily clobbered?

I have a global hot key to bring up the Applications folder. I'd love to customize the look of that window, but it's pointless. Whenever I hit that hot key I have no idea what I'm going to get. It's always getting reset.

By the way, the reason it does this is because the Finder has no way to set a default browser window configuration. So instead, it just leaves behind the current browser settings in each folder it visits. Super frustrating.

[mzs]

It used to be before darwin that every open folder corresponded to one window and there was only one user, so that approach worked. I really miss that, it was nice having the same window pop to the front with everything just like you last had it before.

[dreamcompiler]

> I have a global hot key to bring up the Applications folder

Not global, but as long as you're in the Finder cmd-shift-A opens the Applications folder. cmd-shift-U opens the Utilities folder.