Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!chow From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Init Manager, please Message-ID: <3185@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 15 Dec 87 03:57:42 GMT References: <338@spectrix.UUCP> <8203@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 40 In article <8203@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> lear!hallett@steinmetz.UUCP (Jeffrey A. Hallett) writes: :In article <338@spectrix.UUCP: jmm@spectrix.UUCP (John Macdonald) writes: ::I would like to see an Init Manager. It should be able to run a ::dialogue that I will call the Init Chooser. :[...Various comments about such a Manager...] : :This is exactly what we DO NOT want. It is this "let's install this, :and that..." garbage that has made DA's and Fonts such a complete pain :and what makes Suitcase so wonderful. : :INIT's are great in that to activate them, you put them in the System :Folder. To deactivate them, you take them out. It is that simple. :To do anything else would be a level of abstration and complication :where none is needed. This is the way DA's and Fonts should've been :in the first place, but Suitcase fixes it. : Well, you've missed a *big* point. The wonderful thing about Suitecase is that you can: 1. Place resources (fonts, da's, snd's) in different files, i.e., not the system file. 2. You get control over your system, in that you can activate and deactiate fonts, da's, and sounds as you wish by opening and closing files. With inits since the advent of INIT31 you've got (1), but only if you put it in the System Folder, and you don't have (2). Currently, the only way to get control over property (2) is to reboot. Rebooting takes a long time and is nowhere elegant. Or is it that you don't care at all about property (2)? Christopher Chow /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Internet: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (128.84.248.35 or 128.84.253.35) | | Usenet: ...{uw-beaver|ihnp4|decvax|vax135}!cornell!batcomputer!chow | | Bitnet: chow@crnlthry.bitnet | | Phone: 1-607-253-6699, USPS: 7122 N. Campus 7, Ithaca, NY 14853 | | Delphi: chow2 PAN: chow | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/