Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!samsung!sdd.hp.com!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!hsdndev!cmcl2!esquire!baumgart From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: No cmd-opt-e in system 7?? (answer) Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 20:53:54 GMT References: <13860.28466288@ecs.umass.edu> <13861.284694ab@ecs.umass.edu> <17926@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <53777@apple.Apple.COM> <18001@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Sender: news@DPW.COM Organization: Davis Polk & Wardwell Lines: 40 In-reply-to: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM's message of 14 Jun 91 18:33:08 GMT In article <18001@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes: 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....) You can put an alias wherever you like, or wherever it's most convenient. If you have a Control Panel that you use all the time, put it (or an alias of it) on the desktop. Heck, put the Control Panels folder itself on the desktop and take it out of the Apple Menu Items folder if it's too difficult or slow to get to that way. My own experience (on a IIfx) is that bringing the Control Panels folder to the front and opening it is faster than running the old Control Panel DA under System 6. Plus, I like being able to arrange the Control Panels in the folder so that they're grouped logically and with my most-often used ones at the top. I think the ability to put a folder in the Apple Menu Items folder and have it brought to the front and opened is marvelous, intuitive, and consistent; I hate going back to System 6 now. A pox on hierarchical menus; aliases are a much better solution. (Speaking of improvements: the "Find" command in the Finder is insanely great. It works *exactly* as I've always wanted all these "Find File" DAs to work. Kudos to the human interface folks at Apple for making all the right decisions.) -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." baumgart@esquire.dpw.com | cmcl2!esquire!baumgart | - David Letterman