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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Discrepancy in icon positioning in Finder 7.0
Message-ID: <2510.2767525d@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 12 Dec 90 21:05:16 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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I noticed this when I first booted up the May 7.0a9 release. Now I see
it's still in the October 7.0b1 release: Finder 7.0 can't agree with
previous Finders on where the icons should go!

Specifically, within every disk or folder window, the icons representing
files and folders are offset down and to the right when viewed with
Finder 7.0. The distance looks like about 16 pixels down and 16 pixels
right--that is, something like half the height and width of an icon.

This happens in windows on both hard disks and floppy disks, so I don't
think it has anything to do with Desktop Manager (I'm running Desktop
Manager under the 6.0.x system).

Anybody else noticed this? Is it supposed to be a feature, rather
than a bug?

By the way, judging from the few hours I've spent running it so far,
the beta release is *much* improved over the previous alpha. The Finder
opens large folders at a usable speed now, and I think the system would
actually run on a two-megabyte machine.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-71-562-889
Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-71-384-066
University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
Hamilton, New Zealand    37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+13:00
That all, folk.