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From: mcgu5464@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ronald J Mcguire)
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Subject: Re: System 5.0.4
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Date: 7 Mar 91 23:13:14 GMT
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In article <555@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:

>From lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green):
>> I got mail from Andy Nicholas about two weeks ago (in response to some
>> suggestions I made regarding the Finder..such as a "Windows" menu).

Speaking of "Windows", it seems that apple is loosing the battle against
MS over the "windows looks like the Mac desktop" battle. Now if they had
been honest and said that MS stole the GS's finder.... :-)

>    I thought it would be a nifty idea if GS/ShrinkIt could be incorporated
>into the Finder.  There would be a a couple new items under the "File" or

I used to think that there were a lot of things that it would be nice if
the finder had, and if the finder didn't have. Adding SIt to the finder
would blow the MEMTOP on smaller systems and wouldn't allow the sys disk
on a 3.5. Not that any of that matters to me. I see two solutions...
2 finders, (which hopefully we will get our MMU and multifinder) for
those of us who could run it, and the stripped version. The other idea
would be that you define your icon to launch SIt GS and the problem is
taken care of for you... Of course that only works for decoding, but then
I leave my most used Icons on the desktop as it is... So no big deal.
I *would* really like that multifinder tho... (Yes, Ive tried leapfrog)

>comment for that file.  If that's the only improvement to the new Finder, I
>would be satisfied.

Well, not me! I hope they've come up with something radical, and not even
like what we've got. Something a lot better, and that we've never thought
of before... (like the MIND.FST or would that be the MIND driver?! to
really make the GUI hum...) Everything else there are patches or devices
for. Everyone seems to want the HFS.FST, and a few want a MSDOS.FST,
and a goal would be a multifinder, but I don't know if they would do any
of that. More likely you will be able to change the color of the desktop,
(which I already can), or the shadows will look more "real." Maybe there'll
be a VOC desktop? (But I can't afford one of them yet either!) Well, I'm
not holding my breath, but I'm waiting to see... (And besides, Apple will
probably encode it in MFS this time so we cant get at it... :-)

>Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be

Dan