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- From: arielmag@actcom.co.il (Ariel Magnum)
- Subject: What I want from new Workbench
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- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:21:21 GMT
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- Hello there all Amigans !
- Just spent hours trying to debug several comodities to work together
- and i ended up with nothing!Thsese programs used by most of us are written
- in such system unfriendly manner that just made me wanna jump platform!
- But after thinking a moment (or two) i found out that the blane is not
- with the programmers that release software that make all our lives easier
- but with this lame OS which needs so much patching to make it usable by
- todays standarts.Therefor I have compiled a wishlist of OS4 (3.2?) features :
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- 1. Workbench Multithreaded - now im not sure everyone knows what that means
- but adding child tasks to open window so that we may engage wb while opening
- a drawer , letting it close after launching a program and not making the
- menu stop wb isnt really too much to ask is it?
- 2. Workbench Arexx port - For playing sounds (UDP,MSD), managing Commdities,
- launching programs , and managing public screens.
- 3. Ability to edit menu without a hack that destoyes many others (toolsdeamon)
- 4. NewIcons patch to be implimented.
- 5. Make Wb open on a RTG public screen.
- 6. Impliment Font densetive gui routines preferably MUI.I know its painfully
- slow at times but perhaps written in assembler and using RTG will become
- faster.A tottaly configurable GUI engine could push the Amiga far ahead
- of its competitiors.I must say that most gadgtools guis look very bad
- best examples are the preferences programs.
- 7. Impliment Datatypes more into the workbench so that programs like deficons
- would not be needed.Also this will cut back on executable code.All object
- loading should be done via datatypes.Perhaps object saving as well.
- 8. Making mutitasking a bit smarter - Settaskpre is definetly not idiot
- proof.
- 9. Compiling the ROMs to varius CPU's.
- 10. Text And image clipping from all windows.
- 11. A format command that works (how lame!)
- 12. Improve locale so that catclogs wont need to be compiled.
- 13. providing CyberGfx with WB with support for AGA and fast(!) chunky to
- planaar conversion.
- 14. Distribute Java with the OS , along with Arexx.
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- Im sure you'l agree such an OS will not have to prove itself and would
- graetly improve the machines usability.
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- Ariel Magnum "Who is the real fool ? the
- Tel Aviv , Israel fool or the one who follows
- arielmag@actcom.co.il IRC : Ariel the fool?"
- Using & Supporting : Amiga 1200/30/50 (Obi-One)
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