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From: pierce@radius.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: my favorite finder improvements. Was: Something else you can't do on the Mac
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Date: 5 Jan 90 01:50:36 GMT
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jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes:

>A "more" or "page" DA is clearly the way to go, however to make it
>even SIMPLER the finder could do the following:

>You have a pure text file and you want to open it so you double click
>on it.  Ooops, there's obviously no application for something called
>"document" so the finder automatically pops up a menu of popular
>applications for the user to select from and then opens up the
>document with the selected application.  Or the finder could be
>programmed to open "documents" with a default application like
>Teachtext.

>It really isn't helpful to the user to display alerts that say things
>like "oh... I can't open that."  A beteter philosophy is to have the
>computer propose solutions(i.e. "what would you like me to open this
>unknown document with?").

   #2 on my list of things I would do if I had the source to the Finder
  

   #1 Change Option cleanup to sort alphabetically.
   #2 Have user configurable defaults for applications to open file types
      'PICT', 'TEXT', 'WORD'-MacWrite files, 'MPNT'-MacPaint, etc.
   #3 Application links, and an application dock.
   #4 Allow the trash can to be moved permanently.
   #5 Allow color icons.
   #6 Improve the file copying algorithm

   ...These are all I remember offhand...

Pierce
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