phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (06/14/89)
I think someone mentioned a while ago a patch to apply to The Desktop Manager init to make it work properly as a (non-Apple sanctioned) replacement for the Desktop file. Does anyone have such a patch (either as a set of mods to be made in ResEdit etc. or better yet as a patcher Application)? I'm quite interested in using Desktop Manager, and some of the other Mac users here have started using it on their non-server Macs. I know when System 7.0 appears that it will have this feature, but I'm not sure that some of the users here can wait that long... :-) Phil Jimmieson, *************************************************** Computer Science Dept., * * Liverpool University, * JANET : PHIL@UK.AC.LIV.CS.MVA * PO Box 147 * ARPA : PHIL%mva.cs.liv.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu * Liverpool L69 3BX * * (UK) 051-794-3689 ***************************************************
peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) (06/16/89)
> I'm quite interested in using Desktop Manager, and some of > the other Mac users here have started using it on their non-server Macs. > I know when System 7.0 appears that it will have this feature, but I'm > not sure that some of the users here can wait that long... :-) I was keen on using Desktop Manager, but when I installed it and tried to attach a network volume, the system complained that it couldn't create a desktop file for this volume because it was locked. All our public volumes are locked, for obvious reasons. So for me, Desktop manager was useless because we weren't using it our server (and couldn't for reasons which I won't go into). I did try it on my SE at home which has an 80M Jasmine (not a YABJ yet), but I couldn't see that significant a speedup. The desktop updating was faster, but not as much as I was hoping it would be. In other words, it still seemed much too slow. -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU