Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
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From: vg@csri.toronto.edu (Victor Greenberg)
Subject: Re: Finder proposal: "Select by..."
Message-ID: <8811280442.AA04776@king.csri.toronto.edu>
Keywords: Finder icon select criteria
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
References: <2712@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 88 23:42:45 EST

mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Mike Morton) writes:
>
>As long as we're helping Apple redesign the Finder, I have a request:
>
>I'd like a "Select by..." menu item, probably below "Select All".  It would
>let you select by ...
>     * minimum and maximum length or modification time
>     * file type (folder, APPL, document, name of owning application)
>     * name restrictions, using [shudder] wildcards

Apple is as likely to add this to the Finder as Claris is to extend
MacWrite into something like FullWrite professional.  What we need,
therefore, is a third-party shell designed for Power Users.

I, personally, would like the ability to view files in a *sorted*,
multi-column format that looks like small icons, but acts like view-by-name.
When you add or remove files, the view automatically reshuffles itself.
You should be able to specify that the files be separated into categories.
Eg, folders at the top, source files in the middle, object files at the
bottom.  Like this:
	[] A Folder	   [] Folder
	[] Another Folder

	[] alpha.c	   [] rho.c
	[] beta.c	   [] theta.c
	[] gamma.c

	[] alpha.o	   [] rho.o
	[] beta.o	   [] theta.o
	[] gamma.o

(There is, of course, the MPW shell.  It provides all the power of
the Unix shell, but it isn't very pleasant to use.  There is no
graphical display of the contents of a folder that can be directly
manipulated using the mouse.)

Doug Moen.