ralph@cf-cm.UUCP (Ralph Martin) (02/11/88)
Have you noticed an oddity about the way startup is done in multifinder? You can Either Start up desired applications and documents for them Or Start up the currently open applications and DAs This means that you can't start up a combination which includes (a) some DAs, and at the same time (b) some applications with desired documents. This seems a little unfortunate, and perhaps could be improved in future versions. Still, presumably DAs as we know them will slowly fade away with multifinder: I found earlier discussions about DAs under multifinder odd. The ONLY ones likely to be of use in future ARE parasitic ones, eg which load extra fonts into an application, do spelling checking for it and so on. Others such as clocks, calculators and the like will all become small applications in their own right. I think that Apple have got their option key effect for DAs the wrong way round, for this very reason. One final small point - why should finder HAVE to be launched under multifinder - I might want to run without it! For example, I might just want to run MacWrite and MacPaint, just switching between these two, and never launch anything else. This is not a serious suggestion - just a philosophical comment. Disclaimer: If my employer doesnt like what I'm saying, I'll quit for a job in the real world, with real pay, ...... JANET: ralph@uk.ac.cf.cm.geom ARPA: martin@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock) (02/19/88)
In article <165@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@cf-cm.UUCP (Ralph Martin) writes: > >One final small point - why should finder HAVE to be launched under >multifinder - I might want to run without it! For example, I might just >want to run MacWrite and MacPaint, just switching between these two, and >never launch anything else. This is not a serious suggestion - just a >philosophical comment. That's what I'd like to know. I really don't need the finder when I'm running some applications. For those of us with outdated MacPlusses, it would be nice if we could run two applications -- one of them NOT being the finder... :) Ken -- Ken Hancock | UUCP: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu Personal Computing Ctr. Consultant | BITNET: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu ________________________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER: If people weren't so sue-happy, I wouldn't need one!