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From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
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Subject: Re: Are Desktop files a good idea?
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Date: 20 Jan 88 21:04:13 GMT
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In article <4914@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> jac@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jim Clausing) writes:
>In article <6500007@hpindda.HP.COM> atchison@hpindda.HP.COM (Lee Atchison) writes:
>>Try putting your applications in a long-thin folder at the bottom of your
>>screen.  You no longer have to worry about hiding windows behind the desk
>>top, and the icons are still easily accessible for your use.
>>Lee Atchison
>
>The only problem that still remains is the trash can.  It still remains
>hidden on the desktop.  I would like to be able to throw things away
>from the finder while in MultiFinder, but every so often I find an
>unfriendly application whose window cannot be shrunk or moved out of
>the way and it ends up hiding the trash can.  I suppose I could
>use one of my desk accessories that can delete files, but I hesitate
>to do that with the finder open because of experiences I had in the
>past.  A thought that just occured to me, can you put the trash can
>in a folder?

You  cannot move the trash can off of the desktop.  One possibility, if you
have a large amount of free disk space, you could designate a folder to be
the effective trash, and just empty it into the real trash can whenever it
starts filling up.  This also provides a longer-time undo for deleting
files.

If you edit the name of the trash can so that it is long enough to extend to
the very edge of the desktop, then unfriendly applications which leave a one-
pixel wide margin on the right side are no problem, you just use that one pixel
to select the trash-can's name.  (i.e., you go into Resedit and change "trash"
to "        trash".  Then by dragging an icon down the right margin until
you see the 1-pixel wide sliver of the name highlight itself, you can find
the trashcan.  I am not sure if this will work, but it's worth a try.)

		David Palmer
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