Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!s1!jrk From: jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Finder proposal: "Select by..." Keywords: Finder icon select criteria Message-ID: <266@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> Date: 30 Nov 88 14:15:31 GMT References: <2712@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Organization: UEA, Norwich, UK Lines: 60 In article <2712@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Mike Morton) writes: > > As long as we're helping Apple redesign the Finder I missed that. Can anyone join in? My 0.5p worth: 1. I want an easy way to open the parent folder/volume of a Finder window. For example: Clicking on the title of a Finder window brings up a menu of (above the title) all the parent folders back to the root. Selecting any of them would open that folder. 2. Under MultiFinder, I want the Finder windows to always reflect the current state of affairs, not the state of affairs obtaining when they were opened. E.g. I write to a file from an application, the file is in a "View by Date" window, so the displayed date/time is updated and the file moved to the top of the window. (Yes, I can imagine the potential inefficiencies, and large-scale rewriting of Finder/Multifinder/file package this might require...) 3. Under MultiFinder, when I use ResEdit or similar tool to change a file's type or creator, I dont want Finder to insist it knows better and change it back. (Is this a bug or a feature?) 4. When developing a program, I may have several different versions of it present simultaneously. They all have the same creator type. At present, if I double-click on a file of that creator type, it is not determined which of the applications will be invoked. I would like to be able to nominate one of them as the preferred one. The others would still be runnable by double- clicking on them explicitly. 5. I want the "Rebuild Desktop" feature to retain in the desktop file all icons for all files present on the volume, not just icons for applications. E.g. if I rebuild the desktop for a disc full of Word3 files, but not containing Word3 itself, I want the Word3 icons (or as many of them as are currently in use for files on that disc) to be retained. (It should check to see if they are damaged, since this is one reason for rebuilding the desktop, and discard them if they are.) Also, rebuilding the desktop should retain comments (everyone's favorite gripe). 6. I want an easier way to get at icons on the desktop which are obscured by other applications' windows. At present I have to drag all the other windows aside one by one. 7. Under MultiFinder, why is the window showing memory usage by all applications brought up by the "About the Finder" command (for which you have to be in the Finder)? "About MultiFinder" would be a more appropriate and convenient place to put it. 8. Not a Finder suggestion, but I thought I'd ask this here. The "About MultiFinder" command brings up a rather prosaic credits box. Poking around with ResEdit reveals some much more interesting "About"-type things. Does anyone know how to invoke them? -- Richard Kennaway SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. uucp: ...mcvax!ukc!uea-sys!jrk Janet: kennaway@uk.ac.uea.sys