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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
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Subject: Re: No cmd-opt-e in system 7?? (answer)
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Date: 14 Jun 91 18:33:08 GMT
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In article <53777@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
>In article <17926@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>>
>>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!
>
>Aren't you exaggerating when you say "most options"? You note only a
>"single option".

No, I wasn't exaggerating.  However I had not found any decent
documentation when I wrote this, and have since discovered that the
options are still there, just a little less obvious.  When I make a
selection I can get it to clean up just the selection, but now I have
to hold down the shift key; it's not automatic.  I can get it to sort
by Kind by switching the view to Kind, switching back to Icon, and
then using option-Clean Up (I'll never know how this one got past the
human interface people!).

>>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.
>
>Why does it take longer? Under 6.0.x, cdevs were sorted alphabetically
>with a special cdev (usually General) placed at top. Under 7.0, you are
>free to display the icons any which way you want, including the way
>6.0.x sorted them, so what have you lost? Additionally, you can now
>"type select" the cdev you want without having to hunt for it or scroll
>to it first.

It takes longer because System 7 now opens the Extensions folder (is
that the right one?), and one thing that's gotten a lot slower under
System 7 is opening a folder and drawing all the in it.  So I'll stand
on what I said.

I've since heard that control panels don't have to go into this
folder, but can go into the Apple Menu Items folder.  I'll try this
with the General control panel, I guess, but there are already too
many things in the Apple menu.  (I'll be the first in line when
someone figures out how to make the Apple menu hierarchical....)

Lest I leave the wrong impression, thought, I DO like System 7.  Very
much.  Now if I can only get TrueType fonts to print out with proper
spacing.... 

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