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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Yet another System 7.0 wishlist ite
Keywords: System 7.0
Message-ID: <419@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 3 Aug 89 22:56:18 GMT
References: <550@halley.uucp> <141200067@cdp> <3856@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <3856@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:
>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.

Easy.  It's better because you don't have all those folders open on the desktop that
you have to close!  (Finder has an option to close all the folders you opened when
getting to an application, but it doesn't run under MultiFinder, so it's not useful
in 7.0)

Furthermore, if you use something like Boomerang, you can keep a list of your most-
frequently used folders available from all the SFGet and Put dialogs.  Then you only
need select the folder you want from its list, and you're there.  Viola!

--Mike

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