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From: ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: icon dock
Message-ID: <702@needmore.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 5 May 90 07:19:48 GMT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <40726@apple.Apple.COM> barr@Apple.COM (Ron Barr) writes:

>Do what I do - put all of your files on the desktop into a folder, and then
>keep the folder open. They then float with the Finder.

>Also, if you name the folder "Desktop Folder" interesting things will 
>happen when you upgrade to System 7.

>Ron

Ron, there is a bit of a problem there:
"The trash cannot be duplicated or moved off the desktop"
"Disks can only be moved onto other disks"

I can understand the former, but why the latter?  If I want to copy my floppy
into a folder on my HD, I should only have to drag it there, not drag it to
the root, and then to the folder...

And, speaking of trash, is there any way to change the location of the trash?
I'd like to move it to the bottom of the window (the VERY bottom) so it peaks
out from under my term windows.  I tried Layout 1.9, and looked at the LAYO
resource with ResEdit, but can't find anything.

PLEASE include this in Finder 7!


-- 
Ted Woodward (ted@cs.utexas.edu)

Someone shot the food...