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Article #37Re: Single Filer Icon (was: Zip drives - Problems?)
From: D.A.Symes
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <na.8fc8e54749.a702a0richt@argonet.co.uk>, Richard Travers
<richt@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> In article <na.4958024749.a50210inspire@argonet.co.uk>, Ian David Robinson
[Snip}
> Frankly, I can't see that having your icons on the pin-board rather than
> the icon bar has any great advantages. The icon bar does at least keep
> things tidy, scrolls, and can *always* be brought to the front when
> needed. The icon bar is, after all, only a "special" part of the
> pinboard.
>
> Sure, there are ways the icon bar could be improved - for example it
> could be made double-row, moveable, have vertical/horizontal options, and
> the ability to have different, customable, icon bars (perhaps accessed
> from the task switcher) to suit different project needs would be nice.
Try MS-Windows 95 it has most of what you are asking for... :-) Of course
it's not such a nice operating system, but then you cannot have everything,
can you. That would make life much to easy...:-)
D.A.
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