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From: hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Yet another System 7.0 wishlist ite
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Date: 3 Aug 89 15:13:00 GMT
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In article <141200067@cdp> sklein@cdp.UUCP writes:
>
>Here is my system7.0 feature wish...
>
>I wish that when NO item is selected in the finder, I should be able
>to choose "Open" from the file menu, and get the SFGet dialog showing
>all applications/documents, allowing me to navigate HFS without having
>to open all those windows.  Perhaps it could add a checkbox to the
>SFGet dialog to show Applications only.
>
I don't see why this suggestion is any better than
"opening all those windows". One has to "open" all of the folder lists.
Also I recognize an application faster by its icon than I do
by its name. Also, I can see more icons in a Finder window than I can
see names in an SF dialog list.

Are you aware that System 7.0 has an "alias" mechanism that
allows the icon of a file to appear in more than one window?
(I'm not sure if this implies that the file appears in more than one
folder, though, because of the desired parallelism between the Finder
and SFGetFile I would assume so.) Thus you could organize all (most)
applications into a single high level folder as well as individual
folders along with their supporting files. (I wonder: if I open the
application from the "all applications view" will the application
be able to find its supporting files which it assumes are in the
"individual application view"?)

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