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Article #1907Re: Facilities missing since 8.0
From: Steve Rogers
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,d67ea61135c6a41e X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: thebeast@nospam.demon.co.uk (Steve Rogers) Subject: Re: Facilities missing since 8.0 Date: 1998/01/21 Message-ID: <19980121012536329263@thebeast.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 317856781 References: <1998011721445519117@thebeast.demon.co.uk> <B0E99AFF96683B242@hearsay.demon.co.uk> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: thebeast.demon.co.uk [158.152.71.38] Organization: The Difference Engine Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac