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From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What is the Desktop file?
Summary: Layout modifies the Finder
Message-ID: <669@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 13:06:51 GMT
References: <440008@hpdstma.HP.COM> <2419@polyslo.UUCP> <483@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Reply-To: macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak)
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In article <483@orion.cf.uci.edu> nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes:
>In article <2419@polyslo.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes:
>>>What can you do to it without some sort of custom program to manipulate it?
>>
>>   This is a file created by the finder, it is not there for you to manipulate.
>
>Well, there *is* a program out there called Layout that will allow you to
>modify the Desktop file to some extent.  It basically lets you change the
>way icons get layed out on the grid, the font used for file names, the
>distances between small icons, etc.  It has a very nice interface and lets
(etc. etc.)

Actually, I believe that Layout goes into the Finder and modifies the
appropriate resource there that determines how things look on the Finder's
desktop window(s).

One could do this by using ResEdit and modifying the correct Finder resource
(I think it is called 'LAYO'?) but the Layout application allows you to
achieve the same result via a well-done user interface.

So, I believe the first writer that is quoted above is correct: the invisible
Desktop file is not intended to be manipulated, and in fact, Layout does not
change it directly.


Jim

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