deering@parc.xerox.com (Steve Deering) (05/25/91)
Here's another minor annoyance with System 7.0 that I haven't seen mentioned yet: when the Finder has been configured to "Always snap to grid" (under the Views control panel), icons don't exactly "snap" to the grid; instead they do a little dance on their way to the nearest grid point. Like the people bothered by the zoom rects, I would love to learn how to turn off the icon wiggle. More details: I am one of those compulsively tidy people who likes to keep all of his icons nicely lined up, and under previous systems, I would enable the "Always grid drags" option in the Finder's LAYO resource. Under that option, if I selected a group of icons and dragged them somewhere else in the same window, they would immediately (i.e., in less than a second) leap to the grid points nearest their new locations. Under the new Finder, if I do the same thing, each of the icons spends almost a second doing its little dance -- if I'm moving tens of icons, I have to wait tens of seconds! It's a pity that such a useful feature has been so crippled. By the way, the wiggle in the new Finder is (I presume) the same as has always been done on an explicit "Clean Up Window" operation. It may be tolerable for that operation, because it is done infrequently, but it is a royal pain to have to wait every time you move an icon. Other than that, System 7's pretty neat. -- Steve Deering deering@xerox.com