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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0 speculations - Feature wishlist
Summary: Not the point
Keywords: System 7.0 Features
Message-ID: <431@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 4 Aug 89 20:56:11 GMT
References: <587GDAU100@BGUVM> <19201@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <656@sys.uea.ac.uk> <459@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <459@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>In article <656@sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway) writes:
>>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? [...]

>How would you tell the difference between an icon in a window, and a
>desktop icon which is floating above a window?  

Note:
>>windows of other applications?  
             ^^^^^
Sure, the finder icons shouldn't float above it's own windows... That would
be confusing.  But, it's awful when you have an application running under
MultiFinder and you switch back to the Finder.  You can't get at any of your
desktop-level applications, nor any disks.

>Getting to disk icons is clearly a problem.  Should Apple turn them
>into some sort of window?  Maybe, but you can already get them to be
>windows, yet people still close the windows into icons.  Should Apple
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sure.  That's the whole point of icons: to eliminate clutter.

I dunno.  It's a tough call.  I like the idea of Set Aside, myself.

--Mike

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