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In article <10895@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu writes:
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>After reading people's gripes and new ideas about improving the
>Macintosh finder interface.  I would like to have some input as well.

A few people have been inputing for Finder interface improvement. I think
one of the biggest gripe on Finder occurs under Multifinder environment.
Since Finder was made before multitasking (you can call it whatever, but for
me, it IS a form of multitasking), Apple never thought carefully about the
use of desktop. Here are a list of thing that I want to see in future
Finder interface. (They are mainly cosmetic, and I don't think that they
will be impossible to implement)

1. Window-ize the desktop. Once there are several applications opened, all
the windows, disk icons and trash can are cluttered up by those windows,
and you cannot see them unless you manually resize those windows. I suggest
something like what MacPaint 2.0 does (tear-off menu). Within that window,
we will see icons for disks and trash can icons. We can use that window
just as any other windows in Finder, i.e. dragging disk and file into trash
can, etc. This way, we should be able to use the screen (some of us still
have 9 inch screens) little more efficiently.

2. Menu bar in application window. The latest McSink's interface and MS
Window's interface (heaven forbids!) represent what I mean by.

3. A window menu in Finder (well, we can do with "Windows" DA, but I
wouldn't mind if Apple officially blesses it)

4. A window with all processes running. Just like Sun 386i (or NeXT when
they come out). We should have an option to collapse all the windows that
belong to an application without manually closing all the work. That
should clear desktop when necessary without closing all work.

There must be other ways to do the above, and I am pretty sure that
professionals (in Apple) can make a beautiful interface as they did with
the advent of Mac. However, Apple should hurry to upgrade Mac interface to
date before losing potential customers to other computers.

Chang Woo
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Chang Woo        HB 2932, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
                 changwoo@eleazar.dartmouth.EDU
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