Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver.UUCP Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Message-ID: <1864@uw-beaver> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 15:58:38 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1864 Posted: Sat Oct 6 15:58:38 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 09:07:05 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 39 From: lhasa!stew@harvard.ARPA The Altered Finder is big fun, but if someone's going to get their hands on the finder, I have a request. When you hit the Clean Up button, it arranges things in nice even rows. Great for all us neat freaks. Only thing is, if you like nice descriptive file names of, say, more than 12 characters, it places the icons so that the text overlaps, like this: XX XX XX XX XX XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XX XX XX XX XX XX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX This basically keeps me from using CleanUp. Why can't it be a little smart about this? Suggestion one: Place the icons on the horizontal axis so that there is exactly enough room for the names without overlap. This still wastes a lot of space, though. What I'd really like to see is Suggestion two: stagger the icons to make best use of avilable space. Like this: XX XX XX XX XXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX XX XX XX XX XXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX XX XX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX Yes, I know, I too would rather see them putting their time into getting MacSoftware out on time, but this isn't such a big thing, is it? Stew ihnp4!harvard!rubenstein rubenstein@harvard.arpa