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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: LAYO's and System 7?
Message-ID: <1991May17.224551.13061@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 May 91 22:45:51 GMT
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In article <49162@ut-emx.uucp>, awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
|> In article <1991May17.013309.21002@infonode.ingr.com> griswold@infonode.ingr.com (John L. Griswold) writes:
|> >nicer version of title-clicking.  By command-clicking on the title of the
|> Sorry, but I don't happen to think it is nicer.  The vast majority of the time
|> I don't NEED to move more than one level at a time.  I enabled the title click
|> for a good reason.
You can COMMAND-up arrow to go up one level. I think this is nicer because it's
more consistent with navigating open-file dialogs. OK, it's not a click, but
I for one find it a lot faster.
|> Apple seems to have decided that a drop down menu is superior to a single click,
|> even when that single click does what you want.  Not only did they apparently
|> remove the title click feature, but in Standard File, they removed the drive
|> button and replaced it with a desktop button.  They couldn't be happy with
|> redefining the "click on drive picture" to put you back to the desktop level but
|> they had to dumb down the drive button as well.  Instead of a simple click, we
|> are now forced to click, move, select menu item.
You can COMMAND-right arrow to switch drives (or left arrow to go in the
opposite order). Maybe it's a keystroke rather than a click, but it's there.
|> I don't mind it when they add features, but WHY in the heck to they have to 
|> remove the features I've come to rely on.  At the very least, they could leave 
|> it as an option.  But nooooooooo.........
They have - you just do it slightly differently (1 keystroke instead of one mouse
click). A valid criticism is this stuff isn't obvious (OK, the move up one window
trick is in Finder shortcuts help).
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu