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Re: Single Filer Icon (was: Zip drives - Problems?)

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From: Ariancylch
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <c8V+w2j033n@khantazi.wn.planet.gen.nz>
          banksie@khantazi.wn.planet.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks) wrote:

> Ariancylch <julian@southern.co.nz> writes:
> 
> > The Cumana SCSI model is close to being right. The one annoyance I
> > have with it is the way you have to get to things like 'verify' and
> > 'free' when you start stacking drive-icons. I'd far prefer it if the
> > standard list of options was -always- there, but acted on the
> > currently selected drive. Having the existing list of drives with a
> > sub-menu would be good as well.
> > (This avoids the other, related, irritation I have, in that if
> >  you've only one icon stacked, you have to follow this sub-menu to
> >  get at things like dismount)
> 
>    I must admit I too have been mildly irritated by this. My thought
> was that menu should bring up the standard menu for the currently
> selected drive, shift-menu should bring up the drive list.

I'd be quite happy if there were a 'standard' submenu that listed the
drives, so there wasn't a need for the keyboard. It has the drawback of
increasing the depth of the menu tree, though.

>    The only thing I don't like about shift-menu clicking is that it
> means you have to use the mouse and the keybaord to access drives
> quickly without cycling through them. But I can live with that. :)

Exactly.


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From: Ariancylch <julian@southern.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Single Filer Icon (was: Zip drives - Problems?)
Date: 1997/01/15
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