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- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 11:07:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <68771922@0humpty.tomate.tng.oche.de>
- From: humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE (Andreas Mixich)
-
- floh@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de wrote about "Re: What I want from new Workbench" on
- "09-Mar-1996 00:16:57" at zer.COMP.SYS.AMIGA.PROGRAMMER:
-
-
- > > 2. Workbench Arexx port - For playing sounds (UDP,MSD), managing
- > > Commdities,
- > > launching programs , and managing public screens.
- >
- > Yes, but: playing sounds ? No. Those who want it can use a
- > commodity.
- > Managing Commodities is the job of Exchange, not WB.
- > Managing public screens isn't the job of the WB either, IMHO.
- >
- > Just OPEN, CLOSE, QUIT, UPDATE, VIEW/SHOW_AS, COPY, DELETE,
- > MOVE(!), and perhaps half a dozen other commands would suffice.
-
- Go, buy a VIC20 ! Why are some people satisifed with a minimum ? A
- pubscreenmanager should be built right into the OS. I *HATE* to launch
- extra CX just to get a fu*** pubscreen, where I can open some tools on it.
- Sounds.....should be built into WB as well....
-
- > > 3. Ability to edit menu without a hack that destoyes many others
- > > (toolsdeamon)
- >
- > I like it the way GoldEd does it: offer a set of "kernel
- > commands", and let the user build the menus and hotkeys from it,
- > and make the same commands available through ARexx.
-
- Yes, this is exactly what I'd like to see.
-
- > > 4. NewIcons patch to be implimented.
- >
- > IMHO No.
-
- Not NewIcons. (Wuld not work on a new OS and it's a patch) but such Icons
- (individual pallette)
-
- > > 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.
- >
- > How do you define 'object'?
-
- I guess he means application's data. (text, gfx, sound) All loading and
- saving should not be built into the application but passed as "job" to the
- OS, which gets messages like: SAVE mydata AS JPEG. Thus, DPaint VI could
- save STU images (although this format does not exist,yet ;-))
-
- > If you mean Cut-Copy-Paste with "clipping"... there are
- > two ways, either the application provides support for it
- > (like text editors, etc.) or a global solution is used,
- > like PowerSnap, that works nearly everywhere. Since this
- > is a religious issue, this should be left to commodities,
- > so every user can choose whether he wants it or not.
-
- What is religious here ? Should be built into the OS.
-
- > > 11. A format command that works (how lame!)
- >
- > What's wrong with the current one?
-
- Try to use it from the Shell.....
-
- > > 12. Improve locale so that catclogs wont need to be compiled.
- >
- > ...or provide an easy to use catalogue creator.
-
- I think this should be handled by the development systems. Click on a
- string in your editor, it will automatically pasted to a CT, you just set
- some extra info.
-
-
- > 5) Make the ASL requester a Workbench Window object
- > and vice versa (so, whenever an ASL requester
- > is opened, basically a new Workbench is launched,
- > possibly in "One Window Mode", and with "Listview Mode"
- > turned on. The default mode attributes for ASL-WB-Windows
- > should be preferences settings.
- > That way, delete, makedir, rename etc... would
- > be automatically supported in ASL requesters
- > (as well as icon view if wanted).
-
- You mean something like the DOPUS5 listers ?
-
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