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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: icon dock
Message-ID: <3776@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 May 90 11:40:33 GMT
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Organization: Jenny Agutter Appreciation Society of Edinburgh
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In-reply-to: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg)

In article <12508@wpi.wpi.edu>, macman@wpi (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. 

But you can't get at the $%^&#@ icons if another application has a
window over them, since they stay on the desktop!

I'm all for making the icons *into* windows, myself, so that they
float with the rest of the Finder's layer.

>- Chris

		Nick.
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
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