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From: kenk@tellabs.com (Ken Konecki)
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Subject: Re: What can't it do? <Was Re: Rumor -> Loss of...
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Date: 10 Jul 90 12:50:19 GMT
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In article <1990Jul8.214605.24056@spectrum.CMC.COM> lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen) writes:
>on the desktop (disks, "most-frequently-used" applications, thrash can
>...) are not in the same display layer as the Finder windows, but hidden
>under all the windows. So when you're in Word (or Kermit, or any other
>application that uses full-screen windows and does not block the desk
>top layers as Hypercard does) you cannot get to the thrash can. This can
>be really annoying.

The answer is to shrink your windows (if possible) so that you can click
on the icons at anytime without having to click on the small icon in the
menu bar (or select finder from the apple menu) to bring up the finder.

What an application should do is to shrink its window when its switched
out, so that the finder icons (Trash can and disks) are not covered when
the application is not active. I know that Versaterm Pro does this and I
think its a really nice thing to do.

Cheers,
    -Ken K
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