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- I have just submitted a quad-fat version 1.4.1 of Fiend.app to:
-
- <ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/Fiend1.4.1.NIHS.tar.gz>
-
- it should probably move to:
-
- <ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/next/binaries/util/Fiend1.4.1.NIHS.tar.gz>
-
- This is just a maintenance release to fix a couple of sloppy bugs
- in v1.4:
-
- * Fiend refuses to launch apps from the Fiend Shelf.
- * Fiend gets confused when you launch apps from paths with spaces in them
- * Fiend gets confused when replacing more than one row's worth of app icons
- * Fiend no longer tracks some apps with extra-long file names
-
- Fiend is shareware, and if you use it regularly, I request that you
- send me $10 as a token of your satisfaction with my efforts (my address
- is in the README).
-
- - David C. Lambert
- dcl@homer.uu.panix.com
- 431 Fourth Avenue
- Pelham, NY 10803
-
-
- EXCERPT FROM THE "README":
-
- What does it do? Well, Fiend is a dock extender, first
- and foremost. It is the *only* quad-fat dock extender capable
- of animating *all* of your animated icons, as well as:
- * supporting multiple, named dock levels;
- * handling command-dragging and command-double-clicking
- * arbitrary configuration and placement of your dock(s) and
- the docked icons in an integrated and seamless fashion.
-
- Fiend is also a shelf extender that turns your entire desktop into
- a shelf that can display an image of your choice.
-
- Finally, Fiend is capable of loading your BackSpace modules, so it
- can function as a screen saver as well.
-
- CHANGES IN VERSION 1.4:
-
- New Features:
-
- * Dock levels are now loaded when needed, rather than
- all at once during initialization
- * New Preferences panel - gets rid of most of the dwrites
- * Added "BackSpace->Set Password" menu item
- * Added "Dock->Toggle Lock" menu item
- * Fiend Dock now remembers its position differently under
- different window resolutions
- * Fiend icons are now updated automatically when they are
- selected in the Workspace, or manually in response to an
- alt-click
- * Fiend now includes some items from the MiscKit, which
- contributed to the following features:
- - multi-threaded app launches
- - an "Info->Show Menus" menu item
- - intelligently updated menus
-
- Bugs Fixed:
-
- * Fiend crashes when an app that was launched from the
- command line (using a command without a forward slash)
- terminates
- * Fiend doesn't remember the locations of persistent icons that
- have been moved
- * Fiend crashes when a Dock level containing persistent icons
- is deleted
-
- Cleanups:
-
- * All modal panels now have "Cancel" and "Ok" buttons
- * Selection of docked or shelved files in the Workspace is now
- documented
- * When you click an icon to select it in the Workspace, the
- Workspace now becomes the active app
- * Fixed some library loading options that prevented some
- BackSpace modules from being loaded properly
- * The Fiend Dock "Close Post Launch" command has been
- rationalized slightly, so that the Dock will close after both
- launch and reactivation, rather than just launch
-
- Incompatibilities:
-
- * Toggling a docked icon from persistent to non-persistent no
- longer reassociates that icon with the level to which it
- was originally attached. If you turn off persistence for a
- docked icon, it becomes attached to whichever dock level
- is visible at the moment.
- * Fiend v1.4.1 no longer accepts the plain ascii pasteboard type
- for paste operations, although it still generates that type
- when cutting/copying
-