Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: icon dock Message-ID: <1990May2.220210.7333@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 2 May 90 22:02:10 GMT References: <1990Apr30.161035.24652@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <11287@hoptoad.uucp> <12508@wpi.wpi.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 19 In article <12508@wpi.wpi.edu> macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg) writes: >TM> Now, if they would put the Finder icons in windows, *that* would be >TM> a good feature! I'm so sick of using "Set Aside" just to do basic >TM> Finder operations! And most people don't even have that! > >What would that accomplish? The finder is always active under multifinder, >so it doesn't have to be launched... and you can easily go to the finder by >selecting the finder icon in the Apple Menu. What would accomplishes, gentlepersons, is that you could get to the &%$#*@! disk icons and the trash, which are on the desktop and obscured by the open windows of other applications. You currently must either resize the windows or use "set aside" to get at them. Tim would like to see the disk icons and trash in a window of their own, so they could be accessed without resizing or Set Aside. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner