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Edward P. Costello writes:

##  Re: opening Control Panels like Finder files
##  I don't see how changing the interface to the control panel from what
##  it's been for, what, seven years? will be beneficial.  I found it
##  confusing.  Yes, let's take the ability to change system level
##  information and make it harder for people to do.  Right. 

Actually, I think that this is a really nice example of how System 7.0
is going to improve the Macintosh interface by making it more consistent.
Right now we have a control panel which displays icons (the same icons we
see in the system file) which you single-click on to open the panel.
But elsewhere, you double click on icons...why the difference?  Also,
in System 7.0 you can have multiple control panels open at once,
which is occasionally useful, but more useful to me, you can create an
alias for a frequently used panel and put it in the apple menu.

As for being harder to do, I think that's just plain wrong.  What do you
do now?  Choose the control panel DA, scroll through the list of cdevs
(don't miss it...) click on the icon and there you are.  In 7.0?  You
choose the control panels folder from the apple menu, find the control
panel (the resizable window displays more than 4 icons) and double
click on it.  Not that different, and certainly not harder.

Cheers,

Brent
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Brent Marykuca (marykuca@sol.UVic.CA)
Apple Research Partnership Program
Computing User Services