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

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From: D.A.Symes
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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From: D.A.Symes <df.symes@argonet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Single Filer Icon (was: Zip drives - Problems?)
Date: 1997/01/09
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