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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Gripes about System 7.0
Message-ID: <20283@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 91 18:38:26 GMT
Reply-To: mxmora@sri-unix.sri.com (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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I realize that its probably to late for the programmers to
change anything now but I have a few problems with system 7.0

1) WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD APPLE WITH ALL THEIR AWESOME PROGRAMMERS
   AND UNLIMITED R&D FUNDS CHOOSE TEACH TEXT AS THERE DEFAULT TEXT EDITOR!!!!
   THAT IS TRUELY ASSININE!

Come on now. The finder should have an editor built in. If they can't write
one then they can licence the code from someone. Edit 6.0 is only 68K in size.
DataPak is selling some code to do the same thing. If the really want an 
awesome editor they can attach MPW's editor to it.(or even McSink DA)
Even if they don't add an editor to the finder they should at least make the
default program that it launches configurable. "I'm sorry, that file is to big
for teach text to display" will probably be the message a user will get if
they try to open a big read me file.

Maybe I'm way off base here and Apple really feels that most users will not
need a text editor, but there is nothing worse than having to read a large text
file on a mac that only has a word processor. First you have to find the
application because if the user just double clicks on the file of course they
will get "application busy or not found dialog". Thats user friendly? How about
giving a user a list of applications that can open the file like handoff does?
Once you found the WP program (after digging through a few folders) you have
to remember wher the file was and hunt for with the lovely SFGet file. Now
that you found the file and open it, You have to wait and wait for the
wonderful wp program to read in the text and format the page because we all
know that everything on the mac has to look good. :-) Well it should look good
but the silly user who wrote the document of course used hard <cr>'s and the
margins in this now "untitled" document are smaller than the original and 
every thing is all over the place. 

Well of course there are a lot worse things in this world, this is a worse 
case sinaro (sp?) and stuff like this never happens, at least not on a Mac.:-) 

2) Apple has open up the system file. This is great no more font/da mover.
   BUT WHAT ABOUT FKEYS? Come on Apple just a few changes to some source
   and you can also drag Fkey files into the system folder. Thats not asking
   too much. I don't remember if you can drag sound files but if not you should
   include them too.
 

Sorry for the lengthy post but I had to get it off my chest.

These are not the only things I thought of but its just the ones I can remember
offhand.


Matt
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