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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: _Launch 2.0 Suggestions
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.152648.6192@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 18 Jan 90 15:26:48 GMT
References: <1881@mrsvr.UUCP> <1990Jan17.174433.4896@smsc.sony.com> <13040@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <13040@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>Good ideas.  I've been known to double-click on an icon and have it
>not do anything - meanwhile I'm staring dumbly at the screen, waiting
>for it to open.  Maybe he should implement a `zoom' effect such as the
>one in the Finder?

To me, zooming is ugly.  I turn it off in the Finder, and when I see X
window managers with it, I very quickly look for a way to turn it off.
BTW, have people seen the INIT called SpiNit?  Kind of cute, in a weird
sort of way.

Enhancing the icon in some way or another, just as the Finder does
when you double-click on an icon, is useful without being annoying.
Zooming is a good idea, as long as it can be turned off.

>>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).
>
>Now *there* I disagree.  The dock is relatively unobtrusive; why have
>to fish for it in the Apple menu every time you want it?

Obtrusiveness is a personal thing.  On my 14" monitor, it's
unobtrusive.  On a toaster Mac, it takes up enough room to make a
difference.  Note that I'm using _Launch 1.2, which is a 2x10 or 10x2
window.  I don't recall whether or not earlier versions were this
size.

Anyway, I use Larry Rosenstein's Application Menu INIT.  This allows me
to get to the list of applications anywhere on the screen (I usually
use the top right corner of the menu bar, but I can get to it anywhere
using Control-Option-Command-Click).  Also, with more recent
MultiFinders, the application list is at the top of the DA menu.

In any case, as with single clicks, I'd like to see the auto-"Set
Aside" be an option.

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