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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: _Launch 2.0 Suggestions
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.174433.4896@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 17 Jan 90 17:44:33 GMT
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Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <1881@mrsvr.UUCP> hallett@gemed.ge.com (Jeff Hallett x5163	) writes:
>
>I wish I had an email address for Lunarmobiscuit (aka Mike Libes), but
>since I don't and I think he reads the group, I'll start this thread.

I think it's ml10+@andrew.cmu.edu.

>On the whole, it looks kinda neat, but I wanted to comment on his wish
>list.  He states that he wishes  that the icons  could be  dimmed when
>the application is  running.  I disagree.  I would  like the button to
>either start the application or bring that  running application to the
>foreground.  

I don't think that dimming the icon precludes that functionality.
After all, that's what the Finder does.

For launching, I'd like the following enhancements:

	1. When the icon has been successfully clicked and _Launch
	   has started executing the application, it should hilight
	   the icon (reverse mode is fine) and leave it hilighted
	   for a second.  It's hard to know if the application is
	   starting.

	2. Once the application is running, dim or otherwise
	   hilight the icon.

It would also be nice if _Launch had a mode in which it did an
auto-"Set Aside" after it runs.  It could either do this by
selecting the menu item in MF 6.1b[79], or by hiding its window
when it isn't in the foreground, and maybe supplying a small
button to bring it to the foreground (a la PowerStation).

Finally, switching to _Launch takes way too long on a color
machine, and it doesn't seem to like floppy disks.  I sometimes
insert a floppy under _Launch and it never gets seen when I
switch to Finder.
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