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- I've bought Executor 1.2 way back last July. I recently had time to play
- with 1.99m. Where do I get the registration key/serial number from? I
- don't see that information within the manual, nor on the original disks.
- I've sent a letter to Cliff last week asking about this and received no
- reply. What now? I looked carefuly and did find that I had forgotten
- to send the registration card, so I filled it out and sent it, but still
- no info from Ardi. (But regardless, since I bought Executor >FROM< ARDI
- I shouldn't have had to even fill out a registration card!)
-
- Regarding the Shell:
-
- Also: I like the go shell very much. I noticed that ARDI wants to make
- it a bit different from the finder. Here are some suggestions which
- would make it an improvement over the finder:
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- Each window should have several buttons to sort by name, size, date, and
- unsorted icon. I hate the fact that the icon views are not moveable. I
- can't drag an icon in a new position. While having it sorted
- automatically is cool, perhaps a way to not have it sorted would be better.
-
- The View by menu in the Finder is nice, but it would be nicer if there
- were buttons on each window for the viewing (one of them being unsorted.)
- So you'd have Sort by: Name, Size, Date, Version, None as a class of
- radio buttons, and another set with List, Small Icon, and Icon.
-
- The "Sort by: none" selection would let me place the icons wherever I'd
- want to, so I can organize icons in any way, differently for every window.
-
- These could also be made into pop-up menus to save space.
-
- Bugs:
-
- I also noticed a small bug... it's possible to shrink a window down so
- small that the scroll bar arrows and thumb control overlap. Infact, this
- is the default state of the System folder!
-
- Window Title Bars
-
- Another shell bug is with the Window titles. On 486/33 (CSS brand)
- machines, the shell program (haven't noticed apps doing this) refreshes
- the window title bar several times. This being a slow machine is very
- visible... I can see the lines drawn, and then redrawn later. I wouldn't
- mind the current window being another color than the background window so
- I can tell which is in the front.
-
- I'm not a great fan of horizontal lines on the window title bars, so I'd
- be happier with just a solid title bar (like in X Windows, or like in the
- NeXT WDEF for the Mac) especially if it means it'll be faster.
-
- Icons:
-
- The normal mouse pointer is great, but I really dislike the "Z" icon.
- It's not animated, and it doesn't tell the user the machine is busy.
- Perhaps a moving hourglass, or watch or even a steaming cup of coffe
- (that was used by Gem) would be better.
-
- I notice the shell shows an Omega menu instead of the Apple icon. This
- is silly because when you run an application, the application displays
- the Apple icon anyway. If displaying an apple icon is a copyright issue,
- how about something else, like the "earth" icon? Or some other well
- designed icon? (Actually on my Mac, I removed the Apple icon and
- replaced it with a skull, now that would be really cool.)
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