🚀 go-pugleaf

(lsr@apple has said that Steve Capps is thinking of rewriting the
finder so that only system-created files - i.e., disks and trashcans -
can appear on the desktop.  Applications and documents go into folders.)

A rereading of the Macintosh owner's manual points out to me that the
word "desktop" refers to that gray gunk under your disk, trash, and
windows.  I usually find that I call the window for the boot disk
the desktop...and so does some documentation (compare the usage
of "desktop" on pages 12, 37 and 106 of the owners guide with
that on page 35, which refers to file folders as being used to
organize your "desktop":  to me this means organizing the window.)

IF the new finder is eliminating putting files into the gray gunk
desktop, that's fine by me -- I never liked having things out
there anyway, since it is hard to tell what disk they belong to.

BUT, IF the new finder is going to eliminate putting documents
and applications onto the window-associated-with-the-open-disk
desktop, I'm against this revision.  It adds an extra step and
an extra window to have to open a folder to get at, say,
MacPaint from a disk.  When not using a hard disk (95% of
us?...) a tree structure directory that is enforced that
much seems like overkill.

So, which "desktop" are we going to be unable to put files onto?
The gray gunk or the open window?


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