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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
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.