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- From: arielmag@actcom.co.il (Ariel Magnum)
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
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- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 18:30:33 GMT
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- >> 4. NewIcons patch to be implimented.
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- You must not know the newicons patch the icon data is stored with palette
- information in tooltypes (backwards compatibility) all the patch does is
- remap the colours on the wb with dithering.
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- >> 5. Make Wb open on a RTG public screen.
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- > It already does with CyberGraphX. If you mean it should directly support
- >more than 256 colors, that means a big re-write of Intuition.
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- About time.
- > So? If you want idiot-proof, "delete C:SetTaskPri".
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- You misunderstood the user does not need to setpriorities but the computer!
- Sort of lik executive so that system performance and responsiveness will be
- good at all times.
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- >> 11. A format command that works (how lame!)
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- > What doesn't work? Under 3.x, you can run it from the CLI, from an icon,
- >or using the "Format Disk..." menu item from Workbench. Not only that, it
- >works on every filesystem I've tried.
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- But not on all partition specs
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- >> 12. Improve locale so that catclogs wont need to be compiled.
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- > You don't have to compile them, they're IFF files. Aminet has a couple of
- >editors that will edit them directly, and it's not a very big deal to invoke
- >another command in a makefile to create one.
-
- What editors?
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