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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Another thing lost in 7
Message-ID: <1991May31.183151.20329@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 18:31:51 GMT
References: <1991May28.182139.14835@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991May30.172958.1903@svc.portal.com> <jblue.675692955@mwunix.mitre.org> <13789@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Frankly, some of the user interface changes in system 7.0 seem to be
"disimprovements":
	(1) There is no longer control over how icons are spaced on
		the screen.

	(2) Command-option-E is used to eject a disk.  It's just plain 
		slow and stupid to ask the user to select the disk.
		If I have to select the disk with the mouse, it only
		takes half a second to drop it on the trash.

		my conclusion -- The quick-eject features has been REMOVED.

	(3) The ability to zap the PRAM is now restricted to people
		with 4 fingers and two hands.  Zapping the PRAM
		and rebooting with all your inits MAY BE a 2-boot
		(I don't know, haven't tried it yet).  This is a
		great loss in convenience.  If your PRAM is smashed,
		preventing you from booting your hard disk, you must
		do a 7.0 FLOPPY BOOT, then a Hard Disk boot.  This is
		outrageously moronic!  I can't believe Apple let this
		slide into system 7.0.  They shouldn't even document
		it, it's that stupid.  Perhaps they're trying to make
		a new market for $25 "PRAM zero" DA's.

	(4) Two low-level programs (PKEY and Blesser) no longer
		work correctly with system 7.0.  Blesser will not
		find the system folder on my machine.  Actually, the
		system folder on my machine isn't even a valid icon
		anymore, and rebuilding the desktop doesn't help
		(is this an installer bug?)  There is no reason
		that PKEY and Blesser should not be part of system
		software, especially PKEY.  This is a loss in 
		consistency in the user interface, since the newer
		macs have a PKEY function in ROM.

Hoping that apple considers some of these improvments in 7.03....

Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL


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