Hi,
In the distant past (7+ years ago), I played around with replacing the Finder executable in the System Folder with another application by fooling the OS into thinking the application was the Finder.
I did this simply by changing the type and creator codes of said application to those of the Finder. The only downside to this approach is that the regular Finder is permanently disabled, rendering the OS useless if the replacement application doesn't work (and you can forget about file management, unless the application has some built-in facilities for doing such things).
I hope this helps!
c
In the distant past (7+ years ago), I played around with replacing the Finder executable in the System Folder with another application by fooling the OS into thinking the application was the Finder.
I did this simply by changing the type and creator codes of said application to those of the Finder. The only downside to this approach is that the regular Finder is permanently disabled, rendering the OS useless if the replacement application doesn't work (and you can forget about file management, unless the application has some built-in facilities for doing such things).
I hope this helps!
c