Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!sumacc From: sumacc@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: New Finder Feature??? Message-ID: <844@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 22:59:42 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.844 Posted: Mon Apr 1 22:59:42 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Apr-85 02:42:38 EST References: <37770@apple.UUCP> Reply-To: sumacc@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 33 Summary: (lsr@apple has said that Steve Capps is thinking of rewriting the finder so that only system-created files - i.e., disks and trashcans - can appear on the desktop. Applications and documents go into folders.) A rereading of the Macintosh owner's manual points out to me that the word "desktop" refers to that gray gunk under your disk, trash, and windows. I usually find that I call the window for the boot disk the desktop...and so does some documentation (compare the usage of "desktop" on pages 12, 37 and 106 of the owners guide with that on page 35, which refers to file folders as being used to organize your "desktop": to me this means organizing the window.) IF the new finder is eliminating putting files into the gray gunk desktop, that's fine by me -- I never liked having things out there anyway, since it is hard to tell what disk they belong to. BUT, IF the new finder is going to eliminate putting documents and applications onto the window-associated-with-the-open-disk desktop, I'm against this revision. It adds an extra step and an extra window to have to open a folder to get at, say, MacPaint from a disk. When not using a hard disk (95% of us?...) a tree structure directory that is enforced that much seems like overkill. So, which "desktop" are we going to be unable to put files onto? The gray gunk or the open window? -- SUMacC file system & "readnews" for the Mac groups; e-mail to: Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!sumacc (OR) uwmacc!rick