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- From: chiarito@cli.di.unipi.it (Rudi Chiarito)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 15:39:34 GMT
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- Irmen de Jong (irmen@cs.vu.nl) wrote:
- : On Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:21:21 GMT Ariel Magnum (arielmag@actcom.co.il) (Ariel Magnum) wrote:
-
- : : 2. Workbench Arexx port - For playing sounds (UDP,MSD), managing Commdities,
- : : launching programs , and managing public screens.
-
- : Can come in handy. Not urgent.
- it IS urgent!
- there are so many uses for such a GREAT feature!
-
- : : 3. Ability to edit menu without a hack that destoyes many others (toolsdeamon)
-
- : ?? what whas it's name, errm workbench.library/AddToolItem (or something
- : like that)
- I think he means there's need of a PROGRAM (not a system function) like ToolManager
- included in the workbench distribution.
-
- : Rewrite MUI in assembly? Ugh!!! Besides, I doubt it will improve the speed
- : very much. CPUs and Graphics cards get faster all the time.
- YEs it would... v3.2 or v3.3 is significantly faster than previous ones also
- because small portions were rewritten in assembly.
-
- : : 10. Text And image clipping from all windows.
-
- : Text clipping from all windows: next to impossible. Only from text windows. Otherwise
- : you'll be needing OCR built into the OS?? ;-)
- Have you ever seen PowerSnap by Nico Francois? I dont use it only because it has some
- bugs but mainly because it eats too much mem (IMHO).
-
- : My own additional wishes:
-
- : 4. Better filesystem. (AFS?) (Possibility to mount a device on a directory, like unix?).
- it can be already done... make a soft link to another volume :)
- (pretty dirty... and i'm also assuming they'll fix soft links - i've installed fixslinks
- at the moment)
-
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