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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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Simon Slavin <slavins@hearsay.demon.junkguard.co.uk> wrote:

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

Snip

> > 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.


AFAIK, it is and always has been the option key to do this, and a quick
test suggests it still does. V.Handy for CDs with lots of custom icons,
as is CDicon killer.

-- 
'ric

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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ric <btgsch@rmplc.co.uk> wrote:

> AFAIK, it is and always has been the option key to do this, and a quick
> test suggests it still does. V.Handy for CDs with lots of custom icons,
> as is CDicon killer.

Ah, perhaps Shift only worked by accident.  Hang on, let's try Option
then...

Ha!  Great. It works.

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