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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
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Subject: Re: User interface issues (was Re: Dialog Modality)
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Date: 6 Apr 91 19:13:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: peirce@outpost.UUCP's message of 5 Apr 91 09:34:49 GMT

In article <0B010004.d4gz4b@outpost.UUCP> peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:

   There's no way that Apple would implement the functionality of
   SuperBoomerang the way it's done now.  I can hear it now, "Why did
   Apple screw up System 7.1 with the awful new Std File dialog?  I'm
   going to keep using SuperBoomerang!"

I wouldn't expect that Apple would adopt Super Boomerang lock, stock
and barrel.  But from a human interface point of view, it struck me as
odd that Apple would spend so much time making the Finder super-
friendly and so little time on such basics as keeping track of the
last selected file in the standard file box.  A simple pop-up list of
recently visited folders would be a nice touch as well.

That would still leave a large niche for utilities like Super
Boomerang (with its nice file/folder grouping, super-fast finding,
deleting and renaming, etc.).  But the majority of Mac users -- who
don't run these whiz-bang, extra-cost utilities -- would still be less
frustrated than they are by the current, rather inflexible
implementation.

   P.S.  I'm quite happy that Apple didn't make my AppSizer obsolete -
   though I really wouldn't mind it all that much...

I suspect that VM under System 7 may do that -- though in the
meantime, it's a really neat hack...  :-)

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