pierce@radius.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter III) (01/05/90)
jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes: >A "more" or "page" DA is clearly the way to go, however to make it >even SIMPLER the finder could do the following: >You have a pure text file and you want to open it so you double click >on it. Ooops, there's obviously no application for something called >"document" so the finder automatically pops up a menu of popular >applications for the user to select from and then opens up the >document with the selected application. Or the finder could be >programmed to open "documents" with a default application like >Teachtext. >It really isn't helpful to the user to display alerts that say things >like "oh... I can't open that." A beteter philosophy is to have the >computer propose solutions(i.e. "what would you like me to open this >unknown document with?"). #2 on my list of things I would do if I had the source to the Finder #1 Change Option cleanup to sort alphabetically. #2 Have user configurable defaults for applications to open file types 'PICT', 'TEXT', 'WORD'-MacWrite files, 'MPNT'-MacPaint, etc. #3 Application links, and an application dock. #4 Allow the trash can to be moved permanently. #5 Allow color icons. #6 Improve the file copying algorithm ...These are all I remember offhand... Pierce -- My postings are my opinions, and my opinions are my own not that of my employer. You can get me at radius!pierce@apple.com. (Wha'ja want? Some cute signature file? Hah! I have real work to do.