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- From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Ideas for programmers
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 13:17:47 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- References: <951.6629T946T278@telepost.no>
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- In article <951.6629T946T278@telepost.no>,
- Marcus Borseman <borseman@telepost.no> wrote:
- >I miss some things in the system, and as far as I know there's no software
- >that takes care of it. If you are a programmer, feel free to pick up on my
- >ideas and make a piece of software out of it. If you know of a program which
- >performs the function(s) I suggest, please let me know.
- >
- >- Like on the Mac: double click on title bar, window goes away and only
- > titlebar stays on screen (or shift-click or middle mouse button or some-
- > thing similiar)
-
- Often you can do this with the zoom gadget - or better still, an
- iconify gadget lets you shrink it to simply an icon on the backdrop
- which doesn't get in the way at all. I am about to get back to work on
- a commodity which will let you iconify _all_ windows safely.
-
- >- More Mac-ideas: A program that keeps track of which windows/applications
- > that were open and/or running when the system was turned off last time,
- > which automatically opens/loads those same windows and applications next
- > time one enters the system (possibility to avoid the loading ought to be
- > there as well, a feature which it is _not_ present on the Mac. Waiting for
- > it to re-open a lot of windows can be frustrating.)
-
- This isn't very likely. Possibly you could keep a record of programs,
- and reload them, and resize any windows which pop up at startup, which
- were there at shutdown. But there is no communication mechanism, such
- as there is on the Mac between Finder and application programs, which
- would allow this to be implemented in anything like completeness.
-
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