Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Here’s something I don’t like about Leopard:

Shares are not shown as mounted volumes in the side bar, but mounted disk images are.

On the desktop, both mounted volumes are shown.

That’s inconsistent and just a tad annoying. What’s the logical difference between a volume mounted from a server and a volume mounted from a disk image that determines that one is visible in the side bar, and the other isn’t? It’s not a preference setting.

Using two different sides of the same application (Finder), I have two different ways to get to the same resources. Why, every time I want to view a server-mounted share, must I perform an extra click of the server, then wait for the “Connecting…” phase, then click the share? Over a LAN that’s not a big deal, but over a VPN it can be an annoying delay. For what logical reason are some volumes a click away, and some other volumes two, depending whether you’re accessing them through the desktop or a Finder window?

Addendum: Directly connected external volumes also show up in the side bar.

So why do network volumes now show in the side bar?