Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ec1k+ From: ec1k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward P. Costello) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 04:48:29 GMT Organization: English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 28 >"Edward P. Costello" writes: >> On 16-Mar-91 in Re: 7.0 >> [not meant as a flame...] >> I'll join the hesitaters at least until 7.1 comes out. I've been burned >> once too often by new system software. Sys 7.0's interesting, but be >> prepared for a crowded menubar (on those few of us with small screen >> Macs :-). > >Hopefully you mean 7.0.1 rather than 7.1... remember that there never was a 6. Whatever, I'm not going to update until it's been out for some time. I watched as the beta version flamed out on a 4MB SE and wasn't impressed. > >> Re: opening Control Panels like Finder files >> I don't see how changing the interface to the control panel from what >> it's been for, what, seven years? will be beneficial. I found it >> confusing. Yes, let's take the ability to change system level >> information and make it harder for people to do. Right. > >Gee, you have a short memory. This will be at least the fourth major version >of the control panel since 1984. Each of them has been significantly >different, but I don't think there has ever been a major amount of user >confusion. Yeah, but each version that I remember still retained a DA level of functionality. I know there's been multiple versions. My point is that they have taken a relatively simple process and made it complex in this ``new and improved'' version. -ed costello