[X-Unix] Hiding apps from the command line

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 3/26/04 6:05 PM, "Stroller" <MacMonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:

> You're missing an flag. You either need a flag for "hide" (the same as
> running the command without a flag) or you need a flag to specify that
> the next argument is the app name. Otherwise someone will, eventually,
> discover that the command is unable to hide an app named o (or -o, as
> the cae may be).

I don't agree. I think it's good to make it as simple as possible, so that
without a flag you can still do something. I originally wondered if it
wouldn't have been good to make it interactive - when you type hide, the
shell asks Which application do you want to hide?, then you type the
response and press return. Or, when you type hide, you see a list of
options, and type a letter, or a letter and app name to hide/show it.

Also, it might have been more interesting to make one called hide and
another called show, but that gets confusing....
 
 
Kirk
 
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