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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0 speculations - Feature wishlist
Message-ID: <656@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Aug 89 06:59:49 GMT
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Reply-To: jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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I havent seen it mentioned in this thread yet, but it's a long-standing
gripe in the Mac community: why do Finder icons always lie behind all the
windows of other applications?  Kludges like the BLAST Fkey and the latest
MultiFinder's Set Aside command are still pretty inconvenient.

When an application (the Finder or any other) is in the foreground, all
its graphic objects should be in the foreground.  Obvious, yes?

People have mentioned that it would be nice for applications to be
able to iconise windows that the user currently doesnt want to look at.
Isnt this exactly what Finder icons are?  Why should a window vanish
underneath all the other windows on the screen just because it's been
collapsed to an icon?

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Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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