Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!shelby!neon!pescadero.Stanford.EDU!philip
From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Launching from About the Finder
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.234145.29554@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 23:41:45 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.180203.414@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System)
Reply-To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Lines: 14

In article <1990Oct15.180203.414@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
|> When I have the About the Finder box up, to check memory usage etc., I
|> often find myself double-clicking on an application icon in this box, and
|> realizing that this does nothing. This has happened so often that I'm
|> convinced this should be a feature - surely it would be very simple to
|> implement. You could then keep About the Finder on the screen at all times,
|> and use it as a sort of application dock (in the style of NeXT).

I had several replies to the effect that this will be in System 7. I
probably heard about that at some stage, but it's been so long that I'd
forgotten...
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu