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In article <656@sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway) writes:
>I havent seen it mentioned in this thread yet, but it's a long-standing
>gripe in the Mac community: why do Finder icons always lie behind all the
>windows of other applications?  Kludges like the BLAST Fkey and the latest
>MultiFinder's Set Aside command are still pretty inconvenient.
>
>When an application (the Finder or any other) is in the foreground, all
>its graphic objects should be in the foreground.  Obvious, yes?

Etc.


Is this obvious? Yes. But all those Application's graphical objects are
stored in Windows, and the Finder ICONs are in fact part of the DeskTop
itself. It wouldn't be consistent when those would come in front of other
Applications. (Would't even be convenient, how many times, you imagine, 
will you accidentally activate an Application instead of hitting a Disk
ICON and miss it?)
 A more consistent solution would be to put the Disk and Trash ICONs in
a special window, which switches to the Front together with all other
Finder objects. This window could be graphical, with ICONs or could be
a simple LIST item with names. (User selectable?) Users could even be
allowed to turn the whole option on and off, to preserve the old well-known
interface.

 How about that?   Ernst.
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