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Article #9831Re: _Launch 2.0 Suggestions
From: David Elliott
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 17:44
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 17:44
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In article <1881@mrsvr.UUCP> hallett@gemed.ge.com (Jeff Hallett x5163 ) writes:
>
>I wish I had an email address for Lunarmobiscuit (aka Mike Libes), but
>since I don't and I think he reads the group, I'll start this thread.
I think it's ml10+@andrew.cmu.edu.
>On the whole, it looks kinda neat, but I wanted to comment on his wish
>list. He states that he wishes that the icons could be dimmed when
>the application is running. I disagree. I would like the button to
>either start the application or bring that running application to the
>foreground.
I don't think that dimming the icon precludes that functionality.
After all, that's what the Finder does.
For launching, I'd like the following enhancements:
1. When the icon has been successfully clicked and _Launch
has started executing the application, it should hilight
the icon (reverse mode is fine) and leave it hilighted
for a second. It's hard to know if the application is
starting.
2. Once the application is running, dim or otherwise
hilight the icon.
It would also be nice if _Launch had a mode in which it did an
auto-"Set Aside" after it runs. It could either do this by
selecting the menu item in MF 6.1b[79], or by hiding its window
when it isn't in the foreground, and maybe supplying a small
button to bring it to the foreground (a la PowerStation).
Finally, switching to _Launch takes way too long on a color
machine, and it doesn't seem to like floppy disks. I sometimes
insert a floppy under _Launch and it never gets seen when I
switch to Finder.
--
David Elliott
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!vsi1!wyse!mips!smsc.sony.com!dce From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: _Launch 2.0 Suggestions Message-ID: <1990Jan17.174433.4896@smsc.sony.com> Date: 17 Jan 90 17:44:33 GMT References: <1881@mrsvr.UUCP> Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott) Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp. Lines: 42