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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Opening "foreign" documents in Standard Open
Message-ID: <1990Jul4.042132.11832@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 90 04:21:32 GMT
References: <8980@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: Oklahoma State University
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From article <8980@goofy.Apple.COM>, by lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein):
| I think you're attempting to replace the Finder with an extended Standard
| File, and I'm not sure that's a good idea.  I think it's similar to trying
| to replace the Finder with an extended Apple menu.  
| 
| Both features (Standard File and the Apple menu) are artifacts of the
| original Macintosh, and both should probably be replaced by something that
| fits better with the System 7 environment.  
| 
| For example, you really don't need the Open dialog at all; users should just
| double click on the icon in the Finder.  (That doesn't always work today
| because MultiFinder has to fake out the application.  But eventually
| applications will support the standard AppleEvent to open files.)

  I would scream bloody murder if you took away my standard file
dialog!!! Perhaps a way (button?) to "go looking" would allow me to use
the Finder instead. I personally think the speed of the finder is pretty
bad for picking a file from within an application. The windows clutter
the screen terribly and take too long to update. (IMHO, of course.)
Also, it's nice to have the std file box come up situated at the place
you left it so you can grab more files in the same place very quickly. I
have yet to play with a NeXT, but I suspect the thingy they use to
navigate can be very efficient, much in the same vane as std file.
Perhaps we need to extend std file to include more option similar to the
finder like sorting views and multiple selections. What say ye net?

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| _    /| | Robert Minich             |Q: Why is the food so lousy, and 
| \'o.O'  | Oklahoma State University |the service so bad? Time traveler:
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|    U    | - Bill sez "Ackphtth"     |kind of tip they'll be getting.