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From: goldman@Apple.COM (Phil Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Apps @ top, Set Aside (Was: Finder Improvements)
Keywords: Rooms, Xerox, MultiFinder
Message-ID: <247@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Nov 88 21:04:38 GMT
References: <813@tank.uchicago.edu> <6217@netnews.upenn.edu> <4151@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <32471@bbn.COM>
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <32471@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
>In article <4151@Portia.Stanford.EDU> rick@Jessica.stanford.edu (Rick Wong) writes:)
>]							 . . .  To
>]get to the application I want usually takes several clicks (I almost
>]never use the Apple menu, because of the extra work of having to drag
>]all the way to the bottom of the menu, and then having to think about
>]which application I want to choose).
>
>Check out Larry Rosenstein's INIT/cdev ApplicationMenu.  It lets you
>click at either end of the menu bar to get a menu of all application
>layers (and the DA layer if you have any going), or with modifier keys
>(e.g. command key) anywhere on the menu bar.  Also, Suitcase users can
>hold Option while mousing the Apple menu and all the DAs will be
>omitted, thus presenting the application list near the top.

Better yet, get the new MultiFinder that comes with MPW 3.0 (the beta
version is already available from APDA).  This has application names at the
top of the apple menu, and also includes a "Set Aside" option to set
aside unused layers to reduce screen clutter.

-Phil Goldman
Apple Computer