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Re: System 7.0 speculations - Feature wishlist

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From: Greggy
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1989 00:15
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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.

Kludge? Kludge!?!?!

My dear sir, Blast is one of the most elegant and entertaining FKEYs I've 
ever seen.  It can provide hours of amusement as well as allowing easy 
access to obscured items.

Then again, I could be biased... I wrote it.   :)  :)  :)  :)

But "kludge"?  Surely it's worthy of at least being called a "hack"...

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Subject: Re: System 7.0 speculations - Feature wishlist
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