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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: No cmd-opt-e in system 7?? (answer)
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Date: 6 Jun 91 14:58:52 GMT
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>> Am I just dumb or has apple removed cmd-opt-e from system 7.
>
>The answer is CMD-Y.  I am just dumb I guess since 5 people told me the 
>answer within a few hours of posting.

No, you're not dumb.  Cmd-Y is dumb.  Cmd-Opt-E was "smart", in that
it went and found the next ejectable disk, and ejected that one--it
had some intelligence built in.  Cmd-Y is dumb--if you happen to have
a volume selected (the usual case), it tries to eject that one, and
whines if it can't.  If no volume is selected, it doesn't do anything.
Since you have to mouse on the volume to select it, I don't see the
point of moving your hands back to the keyboard to hit Cmd-Y, instead
of just dragging the volume to the trash.

On the whole, I like System 7.  Two steps forward and one step back.
Here are some more losses:

Most of the "Clean Up" options are missing.  System 7 has made sorting
by name easier, but I knew the trick for doing that anyway.  I most
miss option-Clean Up to pack the icons tightly.  But hey, the
intelligent zoom box is a real winner!

My nice SunView icl8s are useless.  Pasting into the icon box in the
Get Info window sort of works, if you don't care about niceties like
icon masks.  Unfortunately, I do.

Control Panels.  The new scheme is presumably more flexible (I'm not
convinced of that), but it certainly takes substantially longer to get
to the control panel you want, particularly if it's just the General
control panel.

I really like the networking capability.  Too bad it's useless with a
CD-ROM drive (unless you have only a single CD you want to use all the
time).  Probably it's equally bad with SyQuest removables?

I liked hierarchical Apple menus, and now that anything can go under
the Apple menu, I want them more than ever.  This one I'm not worried
about, however--this will be a thorn in everyone's side, so we'll soon
see INITs to do the job.

I used title-bar click a lot.  I'll have to dig into the system to see
if I can turn it on again.

I like staggered icons, but only a little bit staggered, not
flamboyantly staggered.  Again, maybe with some digging....

-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)  I don't speak for my employer. --
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