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From: lhasa![email protected]
The Altered Finder is big fun, but if someone's going to get their hands
on the finder, I have a request.

When you hit the Clean Up button, it arranges things in nice even rows.
Great for all us neat freaks. Only thing is, if you like nice
descriptive file names of, say, more than 12 characters, it places the
icons so that the text overlaps, like this:

XX XX XX
XX XX XX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XX XX XX
XX XX XX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

This basically keeps me from using CleanUp. Why can't it be a little
smart about this? Suggestion one: Place the icons on the horizontal
axis so that there is exactly enough room for the names without overlap.
This still wastes a lot of space, though. What I'd really like to see
is Suggestion two: stagger the icons to make best use of avilable
space. Like this:

XX XX
XX XX
XXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX XX
XX XX
XX XXXXXXXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX
XX XX
XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX

Yes, I know, I too would rather see them putting their time
into getting MacSoftware out on time, but this isn't such a
big thing, is it?

Stew
ihnp4!harvard!rubenstein
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