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- From: jsev@midland.co.nz (John Severinsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 10:24:29 GMT
- Organization: Midland Internet Limited, Network Services
- Message-ID: <3080.6643T924T1555@midland.co.nz>
- References: <5897.6641T1158T1049@cs.ruu.nl>
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-
- On 09-Mar-96 06:18:20 (Msg ID: <5897.6641T1158T1049@cs.ruu.nl>), Wessel Dankers
- wrote:
- --
-
- >>> 2. Workbench Arexx port - For playing sounds (UDP,MSD), managing
- >>> Commdities,
- >>> launching programs , and managing public screens.
- >> Can come in handy. Not urgent.
- >No, it should have been there long time ago IMHO.
-
- Certainly should have been. Since OS2 came out with ARexx the WB should have
- had an ARexx port then.
-
- >>> 4. NewIcons patch to be implimented.
- >> Never seen it. What does it do?
- >NewWhat?
-
- NewIcons is a MUCH better solution than MagicWB. It patches the icon.library
- and enables the icons to use the pen sharing techniques of OS3. This means
- they look the same on all OS3 machines and means you are not limited to the
- boring, poor colour selection of MagicWB.
-
- >>> 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.
- >> Rewrite MUI in assembly? Ugh!!! Besides, I doubt it will improve the speed
- >> very much. CPUs and Graphics cards get faster all the time.
- >> I won't comment on the choice of MUI. Enough threads on that subject
- >> already.
- >Parts of MUI are in ASM already. If you MUI would be put in ROM that would
- >certainly put an end to an important counter-argument: memory usage.
-
- Something a bit smaller would be better. I don't like MUI, it's bloated
- (heading far too much toward Microsoft like stuff in that respect) and doesn't
- really add a lot of functionality to the end user IMHO.
-
- >>> 11. A format command that works (how lame!)
- >> Huh? Whats wrong with system/format?
- >CLI usage is lame. Otherwise I see no problems.
-
- I haven't found anything wrong with the format command either. Double click
- on it's icon and it asks you what you want to format the disk as (it even
- supports other file systems such as disk spare).
-
- >Some advice to make the Amiga sell (cosmetic things)
- >sysihack as a default
- >same for MagicWB
-
- No No No. I think the NewIcons approach would be MUCH better.
-
- >800╫600 as a default
- >Very important: get rid of that stupid ancient 640╫200 look!
-
- True, but 800x600 takes a lot of memory and it is also interlaced. With the
- next generation chip set though....
-
- >Do not be mistaken by the importance of the above: it's incredibly important
- >to be able to show things off in the shop if you want to sell Amiga's --
- >which is precisely what AT needs.
-
- True. Getting rid of those boring 4 colour icons would be a good start for
- presentation.
-
-
-
-
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- jsev@midland.co.nz |
- <tsb>Thor 2.22, 10-Mar-96 15:06:36
-
- If I save time, when do I get it back?
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