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From: GDAU100@BGUVM.BITNET (Jonathan B. Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: System 7.0 speculations - Feature wishlist
Message-ID: <587GDAU100@BGUVM>
Date: 30 Jul 89 21:00:14 GMT
Organization: Ben-Gurion University, Computation Center, Israel
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I was very impressed reading about system 7.0 and await eagerly for
it's release.

I read the System 7.0 notes found in the MacArch archives (LISTSERV@RICE)
and saw little mention of the improvments scheduled for the Finder.

As any other Mac user, I too have my views on how to improve the finder.
I have not really orginized my thought in the matter, but the following
comes to mind:

    o I would like to see a standard Control Device for setting the port
      used for communication (read Modem) with all it's relative parameters,
      such as speed, parity, etc.  Maybe even a modem setup string sent to
      the modem at boot.  This would eliminate the need for each comm.
      program to have it's own implementation.

    o I think each application should have it's own menubar within it's
      window (possibly scrolling the menubar, for small windows) instead
      of todays menubar.

    o Desk Accesseries should "float" like Hypercard's tools menu.  How
      many times did YOU have to bring back the Notepad each time
      you switch to anoter application?  I can't count that much :)

    o The finder should include a tree structure view of an HFS volume.

    o Having a pull down menu from a window's title bar of the enclousing
      folders would be great (like in MacTools) for navigation (this is
      one step futher of double clicking in the title bar in system 6.03 -
      once enables with Layout 1.7).

    o The ability of temporarly making a window into an icon ("iconization")
      is a good solution for working with many applications/windows/DAs
      at once.

                                   Any thought?

                                               JB

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