🚀 go-pugleaf

Oops!! I was wrong.

Earlier I had stated that I did not expect the new Finder to prohibit
placing icons on the desktop.  Well today I ran into Steve Capps, who is
doing the new Finder, and he confirmed that he was in fact thinking about
making this restriction.

His reason for doing this is to simplify the Finder.  The desktop would
become the place where *only* "system-created" icons (disks, trash can,
etc.) would appear.  All "user-created" icons (documents & applications)
would appear in a folder or disk.

I also found out that the new Finder is scheduled to go into production in
about 2 weeks, so...

this is your opportunity to give some input about the new Finder.  If you
have any *constructive* suggestions about this change or any other feature,
send me mail and I will pass it on to Steve.  (I will be collecting all the
comments from net.micro.mac, so there is no need to mail me another copy of
those.)

Note that arguments of the form "But I've always put my application icons
on the desktop." are not going to be enough to change Steve's mind.

Good Luck.
-- 
Larry Rosenstein

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