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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Checking for MF (was Re: Need some MF help)
Message-ID: <6915@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 7 Apr 89 22:14:40 GMT
References: <1179@internal.Apple.COM> <2749@pegasus.ATT.COM> <1200@internal.Apple.COM> <1558@husc6.harvard.edu> <1212@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <1558@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) 
writes:
>         One reason for wanting to know about MultiFinder is so that an
> application can know to leave room for the Finder's icons along the right-
> hand edge of the screen, when zooming windows. For example, More II does 

In article <1212@internal.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>Let's assume that this is in fact a desirable feature.  What you want to 
>know then is not whether MultiFinder is running, but rather if there are 
>icons on the desktop that you might not want to cover up.  

Actually, what I'd prefer is for the Finder to come into line with the
Mac interface and stop writing into the desktop altogether.  The volume
and trash icons should be in a window, not on the desktop.  I run
MultiFinder and I'm bloody well sick and tired of moving other
application's windows to the left just so I can get at my hard disk and
trash icons.  If they were in windows, they would come up when the
Finder came to the front, and I would be spared a lot of aggravation.

Why is that Apple's software (e.g., Hypercard, Finder, Font/DA Mover,
ResEdit, original MacPaint) is so cavalier about the Mac interface
standards, while any of us who dare to violate them get our little
wrists slapped?
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Americans will buy anything, as long as it doesn't cross the thin line
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