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From: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Application switching menu for NeXT/bigger fonts for menus/etc.
Summary: Various suggestions/queries for improvements to interface
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Date: 23 Jan 90 22:56:18 GMT
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Hello nextworld,

Perhaps someone knows if there's an application which will let me select
any of the active programs? Somewhat like the Apple menu in Multifinder.
The problem, as you all know, is that the screen gets cluttered, covering
up all the windows of some application. The only way to get to the application
is then to start moving all the other windows around (or hiding them) until
the desired window is uncovered. I'm thinking of writing such a program
if none is available (my first NeXT app).

Also, is there any way to get bigger fonts for the floating menus? Perhaps
we could even make them more like the apple menus (I find the menus are always
getting in the way of my work). I'm tired of squinting at menus and moving
them around just inorder to see my work. I know there's a way to customize
the application font, but that doesn't seem to affect the menus.

As an extension to the windows, perhaps we could manage a zoom box?

Finally, I'd like to be able to click a button in the browser window which
would change my current working directory to the one selected in the
browser. It's kind of silly to locate the directory you want and then
have to type in the full pathname to the shell window. I was thinking
of somehow adding a button handler to the browser, but I'm new to the NeXT
and don't know if such a thing is possible. And how do you tell the browser
to open your windows always in icon view, if that's what you want?

Thank you all for your attention to these most serious matters.

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Ari Halberstadt '91, "Long live succinct signatures"
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