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From: sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto)
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Subject: Re: User definable objects in Finder 7.0
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Date: 2 May 91 19:21:02 GMT
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In article <52324@apple.Apple.COM> nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) writes:
>In article <1991May2.115300.2662@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach) writes:
>>[can we put other things on the desktop to drop files into, e.g., 
>> a mail box]

>  In answer to your second question, not really.  [The dropping files
>onto applications] feature basically simulates selecting Open from 
>the File menu.

Creating new active objects on the desktop is a feature I'd really be
interested in.  For example I want to be able to drop a document into
a printer icon and have it come out the right printer.  Much easier
than using the Chooser to pick the printer.  If I've heard correctly,
it was done on the old Xerox systems...

However, with regard to the mailbox question, it seems that a system 7.0
friendly mail program could, when opening a file, pop up a (movable) modal
dialog to ask the user whether to send the file and to whom to send the 
file.  This way, you could take a file and drop it into the mailbox 
icon, type in the address and hit the ok button.  Isn't this the behavior
you want?

-Sho
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