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From: mf12605@msi-s9 (Marek Behr [Aero Eng])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7 question
Keywords: MultiFinder
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Date: 22 Dec 89 03:11:53 GMT
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In article <1353@unocss..unl.edu> dent@unocss..unl.edu writes:
>
>The context-switching between different applications in MultiFinder is really
>not necessarily obvious all of the time.  Sometimes, when you switch between
>
> [ Suggestions to make application switching obvious to the user ]
>
>Well, I think I've rambled far enough; I'd be quite interested to see if
>other people think that MultiFinder is a hack (see also "kludge"), and that
>there does exist the possibility that something better may be possible, yet
>still be "Mac-ish".
>
Here's another suggestion to make MultiFinder more Switcher-like.
Maybe it would be nice to have the menu bar of the application which is
going into background slide out one (left or right) end of the screen,
while the new application's menu bar follows from the other side. 
Exactly like Switcher (I think - my memory is not so good) but applied
only to the menu bar. I think this would alert the user better that some
significant change in his environment took place.
Of course Apple would expose itself this way to a lawsuit by inventors of
Wall-Street-type stock price displays...
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