Re: My list of System 6.01 bugs

[David A Lyons <dlyons@apple.com>]

In article <CAoHA3.G8w@wave.scar.utoronto.ca> TAO BRIAN T,
90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca writes:
> In article <1993Jul22.214258.686@gallant.apple.com>, David A Lyons
writes...
> > I'm mostly responsible for ramming that change through--with keyboard
> > navigation the inconsistency became really obvious.  You could
> > sometimes-but-not-always do a Command-W followed by a Command-Y to
eject
> > the front window's disk, for example (when the disk icon was not
already
> > selected).
> 
>     "Sometimes-but-not-always"... ack! I hate inconsistencies!  ;-) 
> Since it is possible to change between a "desktop" context and a
> "window" context using keyboard nav, can you unhilite the front window
> when the navigation is on the desktop?  I can't tell if my keystrokes
> will select an icon on the desktop or a window.

The Mac 7.x Finder does what you describe & unhilited the front window
when the desktop is active.  I judged this to be a high-risk change for
the GS Finder and didn't try to make it work that way.

(In practice:  If you don't know whether you're selecting in the front
window or the desktop, hit Esc to start selecting in the front window, or
hit Command-Esc to start selecting on the desktop.  [For extra credit,
try seleting stuff in some other window--no problem.])

This is a separate issue from what to select when you close a window.  I
-removed- a special case & made it always select the object you're
closing into.  The paragraph in Shortcuts directly reflects that logic:

> > [That is, delete the text from the end that said "..., if no other
icons
> > would otherwise be selected (the Finder assumes that if you selected
> > icons in another window or on the desktop, it should leave them
> > selected)".]

So now you can consistently do, for example, a Put Away to eject a disk,
right after closing the disk's main window.  The Close always selects the
disk icon.  In 6.0, it only did that "sometimes."

Dave Lyons, dlyons@apple.com
Mr Tangent

My opinions are my own, not Apple's.