Re: Finder 6.0.1

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <madsci-2605960053260001@ppp-23.ts-2.nyc.idt.net>,
Eric Dietrich <madsci@tribeca.ios.com> wrote:
>Breaking up the "Shut Down" dialog box.  Putting Quit in the file menu,
>and Shut Down and Restart in the Special menu.

   Softdisk G-S has a program that does most of that already. Issue
#52. Call 1-800-831-2694 to order.

>Making the "Windows" menu part of the Special menu, as a heirarchic menu.

   System 6.0.1 does not support hierarchic menus. It's only a 3rd
party addon that does so.

>Building in rSound playback. (like FinderSounder)
>Building in SynthLab SEQ playback. (like SynthInit)

   Get the program 'SeeHear' by SoftDisk G-S. Version 2.1 (that latest
I know about) was on issue #63.   

>Killing zooms. 

   If you're talking about the whooshing rectangles when a window is
opened or closed, I've got a CDev to kill that, 'KillDaWhoosh'. It
should be at your favorite ftp site, or since it's one of my programs,
drop by ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu, pub/nathan for a copy. Freeware.

>A desktop pattern CDEV.

   SoftDisk G-S again, issue #56. The program is named Backdrop,
v1.0.1.  More background patterns can be found on #63.

>Allow a single 5.25" drive to be mounted.

   As in only one, not two? There are programs to do that. SoftDisk G-S
again, issue #59, I think.

>If anyone has any thoughts on this, please reply. Finder 6.0.1 is very
>impressive.  Finder 6.0.2 could be even better.  

   Most of the stuff listed above can best be served by addons, not
by making it part of the Finder. The Finder's already big enough as
is; making it so that people with only 800K drives can't use it would
be worse. Allowing people to pick and choose what extra features are
wanted is the best option. [And subscribing to SoftDisk G-S seems to
be the next best option :]

Nathan Mates
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