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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re^3: finder irritations
Message-ID: <3194@carthage.cs.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 89 18:09:40 GMT
References: <465c9aa1.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> <1566@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jackiw@carthage (Nick Jackiw)
Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA
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In article <1566@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> ralph@lzfme.ATT.COM (Ralph Brandi) writes:
> In past Finders,
> option-clicking a folder open would cause the Finder to `forget'
> that the window had been open the next time it ran; so, f'rinstance,
> after I quit playing Crystal Quest, I'm greeted with my regular
> desktop, and don't have to clean things up before I run Word.  It
> was handy.  I liked it.  Now it doesn't work.  Why?  Has this
> feature been assigned to another obscure keystroke-click
> combination?

This was a very handy feature, but only for those running uniFinder.
Under multiFinder, where Finder only quits during resets and shutdowns,
Finder never gets the chance to  "forget" the windows you opened with
option-click.  As the world moves toward total multifinderdom, this
feature gets less and less useful; and that's probably why it's been
replaced.

> (I wouldn't be so upset if this happened in a major update like to
> 7.0, where I would expect changes to the interface, but 6.0.3 to
> 6.0.4 is supposed to be a minor upgrade....)

Agreed.

> Ralph Brandi     ralph@lzfme.att.com     att!lzfme!ralph




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