Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: all the messages I got over break...and then some.
Message-ID: <6946@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 06:06:30 GMT
References: <8801042015.aa10562@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8801042015.aa10562@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> LMB7421@RITVAX.BITNET writes:
>Re: Finder
>What use is the Desktop?  Is there a program which uses it yet?  It seems
>pointless to have a desktop if it can't be filled.

Sure; I use the Finder all the time to perform file management on my
hard disk.  The only thing really missing is "switcher" (task multiplexer)
support; it appears that the ToolKit has adequate support for this,
which may have to run as an NDA.  I hope somebody comes up with one
soon, along with a reliable way for a task to determine if it has
control of the whole machine or is being multiplexed by a window system.