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- From: perjac@inet.uni-c.dk (Per Jacobsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 23:42:39 GMT
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- Andre Weissflog (floh@mkmk.in-chemnitz.de) wrote:
-
- > > 10. Text And image clipping from all windows.
-
- > If you mean Cut-Copy-Paste with "clipping"... there are
- > two ways, either the application provides support for it
- > (like text editors, etc.)
-
- We are back to the argument that it is, arguably, a waste of memory for
- all applications to have code for the same things.
-
- > or a global solution is used, like PowerSnap, that works nearly
- > everywhere.
-
- PowerSnap is not a "global solution" it's a hack, and it's failing more
- each day. It doesn't seem to handle MUI's screens very well, it also is
- rather slow, presumably because it's a hack.
-
- > Since this is a religious issue, this should be left to commodities,
- > so every user can choose whether he wants it or not.
-
- No it should be in the OS and if the user doesn't want it he can go back
- to stone tablets :)
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