Re: GUI for //e

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

Geos?  
I think that you can't beat DeskTop 1.1.  It has a QuickLauncher to get in and
out of your programs fast, a GS/Mac-style finder to launch programs that are
deeply buried in subdirectories or in subdirectories with too many files for
the Desktop windows to handle, and a Desktop that comes complete with Desk
Accessories and a trash can.

I looked for this program for a little over a year.  It is a third-generation
MouseDesk program and one of the designers is currently back on staff as the
head of the/a department working on System X for the Mac.

I'm going to ask later, when I can get home and look it up, how to find an
Apple II User from 9 years ago in old West Germany.  He first wrote about this
program in a letter to Nibble Magazine and that started my search.  He
suggested that the Apple II Community take over the development of this
program, since Apple now had a true 16-bit operating system for the IIgs.

I've gotten in touch with a couple of the team members for MouseDesk and
DeskTop 1.1.  They both had fond memories of the program and their teams.  One
mentioned that there were other Desk Accessories developed for the program, but
he didn't know where they were anymore.  I figure that if anybody know about
improvements to this program, it would be that Apple II User in the pages of
Nibble who first gave the call to arms.

He suggested improvements such as an icon editor, a way to change the desktop
backgroud (maybe with a HR or Double HR image) and more desk accessories!  I've
played around with the program a bit and discovered that it is set up to handle
EIGHT DAs, not the five that it now sports.  Gee, a notepad or a calendar would
be nice.  Heck, I'd just like to have the date and the time up on the right
hand side of the menu bar!

Anyway, you can download the program at the Nova Scotia Apple Users Group at:

http://www.ccn.cs.dal.ca/Technology/AppleUsersGroup/NSAUG.html

Or, if you have as much problems downloading as I do (just made my first
successful ones last night!  But I still have a lot that I can't download.) 
Then you can find the program on an old Apple IIgs System Disk (version 2.0 or
earlier), on the old ProDOS16 system disk (or so I've read), or on Roger
Wagner's SoftSwitch program disk (this version has two desktop accessories). 

Jay Edwards