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From: jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Multifinder Change
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Date: 21 Dec 89 19:50:01 GMT
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With talk about improvements to Multifinder bouncing around between
flames, I would like to throw $.02 in.

I would like to see list of active applications under a menu accessible
through the Multifinder icon, rather than below the list of desk accessories.

Yes, I aware of the historical and implementation reasons for putting
the list of active applications under the desk accessories, but it does not
seem logical to click on the Multifinder icon to switch [through the list
of currently active] applications, but to have to go to the bottom of the
desk accessory list to tell Multifinder *which* application to go to.

Firstly, this is somewhat redundant, having two ever-present methods of
switching between applications, and it takes away from the simplicity of
the Mac interface by forcing upon the user a decision to do practically
the same thing.

Secondly, I would like to *always* be able to select *which* application
I wish to continue, but I do not wish to drag my mouse past the fifteen
desk accessories that I have to get to the application selections.

Why not just group all of the Multifinder stuff under the Multifinder
icon?

Must be a really tough world out there if all I'm concerned about
is something as trivial as this... :-)

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Jerry Frain -- Professional Student           Kansas State University
Internet: jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu      Dept of Computing & Information Sciences
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