#: 16760 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    24-Oct-92  10:19:15
Sb: #16751-#Desktop hacks
Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255
To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)

Mike,

I, too, see a real need for the user to be able to delete directories. One of
my most favorite uses of Multiview was in housekeeping chores. I expect I'll
find Desktop very handy to delete files and cleanup directories.

To that end, I discovered that you've enable the wastebasket file concept in
this last release. Took me a few moments to figure out what you named the trash
directory, but a couple of minutes with deD popped up .TRASH.

I dropped that hidden directory on /dd and it works like a champ!

But ... (you know this was comming ...)

In wanting to delete several files, I've discovered a 'feature' of desktop gets
in the way. You apparently resort and redisplay the directory from the top each
time a file is dropped into the trashcan.

This makes for a lot of clicking to get back to where you were in the display
so you can continue with the deleting chores. Is there some way to selectively
disable the resort/redisplay feature? Or may it shouldn't be done except upon
reselecting the directory?

Thanks for the graphic utils you sent. I'll post the gif file of desktop
directly. What did you use to make the iff file a gif file?



*- Steve -*



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