Re: No desktop?
Re: No desktop?
- Subject: Re: No desktop?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 22:17:48 -0700
Thanks to Andy and Shane for the two tricks to do it. Mind you, by the time
you add a display dialog to tell users about it (since there's never room
for more than about 6 words in a choose folder dialog in OS 8/9) you might
as well just give them a Choose Desktop button in the dialog instead, with
an alternate Choose Folder button to bring up choose folder. Users rightly
get quite frustrated since the choose folder window looks to them just like
the standard Nav Services window when saving documents (files) in any app
like SimpleText, MS Word, etc. etc. Except they just can't pin down that
desktop.
It's nice that in OS X the new file structure (or someone's decision to
expose it) lets you pick any desktop easily.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
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Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 16:35:53 -0700
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: No desktop?
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Paul!
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So glad you mentioned this quirk. It just happened to me this
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past week. It was not from an AppleScript call however but from
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a legit NavServices call I've been using for over four years. It
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went away after I had done some work on X and then re-booted
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into 9.1. I figure that some thing in "Recent Folders" getting
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mixed up between X "Desktop" and OS 9 "Desktop Folder".
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Let me know if you deduce anything further. It's bound to come
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up that users will find themselves in this situation and I'd
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love to have a straight-forward answer for them.
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Philip
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On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 09:11 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> Has it always been the case in OS 8/9 that 'choose folder'
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> doesn't let you choose the desktop? There are certainly Nav
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> Services windows that do it - but not in AppleScript, it seems.
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> Works fine in OS X, of course.
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> Currently AS 1.8.2b3.
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mailto:philip@vcn.b
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c.ca
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