Re: Setting desktop position of disks
Re: Setting desktop position of disks
- Subject: Re: Setting desktop position of disks
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:23:06 +0100
At 6:38 am -0800 1/4/04, John Baltutis <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 04/01/04, Wim Melis <email@hidden> wrote:
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> There are six partitions/disks on my desktop. The Finder has always had a
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> nasty habit of not putting them in the order that I'd like to see them
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> appear. So under OS9, I had a little applet in the startup items that
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> told the Finder to set the correct desktop position for each partition
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> and disk.
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> I'm now on 10.2.8, that annoying Finder habit is still there, but I
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> haven't been able to replicate the old script. Any suggestions on how to
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> set desktop item positions under OSX?
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AFAIK, you can't.
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....
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Basically, you do anything on the desktop. When you run select disk, the
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Finder opens a new window entitled LocalHost (which contains all of your
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the items in /Volumes, selects that appropriate item in that window, but
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doesn't select the item from your desktop (which is really the current
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user's desktop folder).
(light cough) I think that this is never going to be solved, because the
whole paradigm of what the "Desktop" is has changed with OSX - along with
the way that folders can be viewed. Rather than being an invisible folder
in OS9, in OSX you have "~/Desktop" which is a real, visible, manipulable
folder. You can dump it if you like. (Never tried it meself.)
Plus, you can view it in the three Finder views - icon, list, column. The
Finder dictionary does offer (for the class "item")
position point -- the position of the item within its parent
window (can only be set for an item in a window viewed as icons or buttons)
and containers do inherit some properties from "item" - but it
seems to be read-only.
I suspect that changing this is not something that has a high, or even
medium priority inside Apple. Personally, I never see my desktop these
days; anything on the desktop folder is just there to make it easier to
drag. (OK, I occasionally use Expose, but not a lot; on a 3yo G4, it's like
waiting for someone to pull the curtains.)
Charles
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