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In article <1998011721445519117@thebeast.demon.co.uk>,
thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk (Steve Rogers) wrote:

> What happened to the Desktop Patterns option-button-press for Change
> Utilities Pattern?  In Desktop Pictures it seems to have fallen off.

Hardly anyone wrote their utilities to take advantage of it,
so it was written-out of System 8.x.  I always thought it silly.

> And somebody should tell Apple that sorting a window in icon view should
> still do a secondary sort by last list-view order, as Opt-Cleanup used
> to do in System 7, and as List Views still do.

Yep.

> Also, mounting a disk whilst pressing Shift used to display the disk as
> an icon, even if it had had open windows when last mounted.  You could
> choose whether to allow MacWorld CD-ROMs to trundle through all their
> custom icons or not.

Didn't know that.  Sounds like it was a good idea.

> Hope these were accidental errors and are going to be corrected.
> 
> To where in the Apple organisation do I send these notes?

See the 'feedback' email addresses on the Apple web sites.

You might be able to stir up some support by posting on
comp.sys.mac.system -- the head HI honcho for System 8.x both
reads and posts to that group on occasion.  He's cool.

Simon.
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