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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 15:58:38 EDT
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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