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From: t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Last minute Finder 7 requests
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.212808.20312@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 21:28:08 GMT
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Organization: Center for Engineering Design
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I want to make a few last requests to be added to Finder 7 before it ships. I
love the new Finder but it is still a little rough in a couple of spots. I
believe these changes could be made without having to include them in any
documention other than to add them to the Finder Shortcut menu dialogs. Most
people don't read the manual
 
#1 - Pop up the appropriate help balloon when the option-shift keys are down
and the balloon help is off. This makes getting help in single instances much
more friendly.

#2 - Option-shift-drag to copy an alias of the selected file to the location
dragged to. I find I am constantly creating an alias, dragging a copy to the
location I want, and then deleting the origional.

#3 - Add one more click shortcut to the "List" views. Put a small icon on the
left of the row where the other column headings are that can be clicked on.
Clicking there would switch to an icon view. And conversely in the "Icon" view
put a "List" icon which you could click in to switch to the list view.

#4 - Add one more checkbox to the Icon section of the "Views" control panel.
That item is: "Show file info in header" This would work very similar to the
"Show disk info in header" checkbox in the List section. In the Icon views it
would display file information in the window header when you clicked on a file.
For multiple files selected it would give you some summary information like how
many files, how many nested folders, how big is the total selection, etc. For
single file selections you don't need to display the name because you see it
with the icon. You could display size, kind, date, and version. That would fit
in the average window size.

#5 - WHERE'S THE CREDITS???? For golley-gee-sakes Gomer, there must be a bunch
of wonderfully talented people who have worked on the System and Finder. Why
not let us know who they are? You managed to do it right in HyperCard 2.0.
Don't you folks talk to each other or have any kinds of standards for things
like that?

Tony Jacobs
Center for Engineering Design
University of Utah
t-jacobs@ced.utah.edu

PS - Folks, if you like these suggestions, lets hears so. Better still let
Apple know!