Re: rSounds -- How to play them?

[jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw)]

In article <C10Co9.13p@CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
>tsavage@ub.d.umn.edu (Tim Savage) writes:
>
>>Well, for those of you who don't read InCider/A+, the January issue contains
>>a story by none other than Joe Kohn, entitled 'Enriching System 6'. He
>>describes a couple of Finder Extensions which will play rSounds by simply
>>double clicking on the file.
>
>Finder extensions are a BIG problem. I don't use the Finder at all since I
>dislike it very much. So Finder Extensions are not available to me. If new
>software is developed only as Finder Extensions, there will soon be no
>utilities I can use. It is a bad thing to treat the Finder specially just
>because it's .... the Finder. Making the Finder an s16 like any other program
>was a good move, unlike what they did on the Mac. But all the new stuff in
>System 6 about the "finderSays" and stuff like that is stuff that Apple
>created that is specific to the Finder. If they wanted to have that sort of
>thing, they should have created a system that is not finder specific.

I think it is a good point.  Often I find myself wishing I could access
FinderExtensions while I am in other desktop programs, such as GSHK, AWgs,
etc.  Not to mention in other environments, like Prosel 16, orca shell, etc.
At least with Prosel 16, there is a quick way to access the DeskAccs.
I think it would be nice to have "SystemExtensions" instead, so they are
available to all programs that follows the desktop metaphor. (640 and 320
programs.)

[other issues deleted]
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>>Tim Savage						tsavage@ub.d.umn.edu
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