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- On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Ariel Magnum wrote:
-
- > Hello there all Amigans !
- > Just spent hours trying to debug several comodities to work together
- > and i ended up with nothing!Thsese programs used by most of us are written
- > in such system unfriendly manner that just made me wanna jump platform!
- > But after thinking a moment (or two) i found out that the blane is not
- > with the programmers that release software that make all our lives easier
- > but with this lame OS which needs so much patching to make it usable by
- > todays standarts.Therefor I have compiled a wishlist of OS4 (3.2?) features :
-
- If programs crash mostly the caused that and not the system. Every system
- has it`s little utils to improve it. This is because every does like other
- design and other functinality. So if the programs crash take other ones.
- I do it so. Aminet is big enough to find one, which works fine.
- I find Amiga OS very good, why else I have an Amiga and no PC.
-
- > 1. Workbench Multithreaded - now im not sure everyone knows what that means
- > but adding child tasks to open window so that we may engage wb while opening
- > a drawer , letting it close after launching a program and not making the
- > menu stop wb isnt really too much to ask is it?
- > 2. Workbench Arexx port - For playing sounds (UDP,MSD), managing Commdities,
- > launching programs , and managing public screens.
-
- These two sound good.
-
- > 3. Ability to edit menu without a hack that destoyes many others (toolsdeamon)
-
- Under OS2.0 you have the ability to add things to last WB menu. What more do
- you want. Totally replace WB menu? No other program has the ability to do
- that (no need for) why WB should this do.
-
- > 4. NewIcons patch to be implimented.
-
- NewIcons is a private made program. It uses a very bad method for doing
- his work. Yes we need better icons, but not in this way. AT should rework OS,
- so that it would work fine on graphic cards. This I think brings a lot of
- useful think, like more-colour icons.
-
- > 5. Make Wb open on a RTG public screen.
- > 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.
-
- Yes we need better OS routines for making GUI. But I like gadtools more
- than MUI, so you can see, that not everyone hates the Commodore (now AT)
- Style.
-
- > 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.
- > 8. Making mutitasking a bit smarter - Settaskpre is definetly not idiot
- > proof.
- > 9. Compiling the ROMs to varius CPU's.
-
- What doe you mean with to various CPU`s ? The only used CPU are 68020 and
- up. And these CPU`s don`t differ so much, that there must be different ROMs.
- And the new one would be a PowerPC, which really needs a new ROM (in
- native code).
-
- > 10. Text And image clipping from all windows.
- > 11. A format command that works (how lame!)
- > 12. Improve locale so that catclogs wont need to be compiled.
-
- Thats shit! the catalog files are stored in the very useful
- IFF(Interchanging file format - remember that). This format can`t be
- edited as ASCII text, but it is better, if there come new options in the
- future. (See Format-description if you want to know why.) And the OS
- gives the programmer the iffparse.library to handle these files.
-
- > 13. providing CyberGfx with WB with support for AGA and fast(!) chunky to
- > planaar conversion.
- > 14. Distribute Java with the OS , along with Arexx.
- >
- > Im sure you'l agree such an OS will not have to prove itself and would
- > graetly improve the machines usability.
-
- I agree, that some changes to OS will make it better, but not more. Most
- I hate is the printer preferences system. This should be updated very much.
-
- We will see, whyt AT does with the OS.
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