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Re: Facilities missing since 8.0

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From: Steve Rogers
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:00
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Simon Slavin <slavins@hearsay.demon.junkguard.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

H'rm, I used to use it.  And Netscape Navigator 4.04 has an option to
use it, so *it* thinks it's still editable, surely?

OK, what do I have to patch with ResEdit, boffins? 


> > 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.

I've just found out List views don't.  Even worse.


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

Ta.
 
See you in c.s.m.s, then...
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