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- From: sledford@iglou.iglou.com (Steve L. Edford)
- Subject: Re: What the new Amiga-OS *must* have
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- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:02:19 GMT
-
- cmarschn@aol.com (Cmarschn) writes:
-
-
- >other people use. The faster and the more effective he (yes, also she) can
- >work, the better the programs will be, and the faster they will get ready.
-
- Which is exactly why I prefer AmigaOS over Windows and MacOS. And yes, I
- have/do use all three regularly.
-
- >- A fat binary format is badly needed. Not only that it could hold both
- >680x0 and PowerPC-Code, the most important thing that is
-
- This sounds very reasonable....matter of fact, I like it! :-) Well, at
- least the part about bridging between 68K & PowerPC code. Unfortunately,
- this will probably mean more bloated code.
-
- >know what I mean. And more fundamentally: more drivers are badly needed.
- >Graphics Accelerator cards have to path (!) the system functions to get
- >useable.
-
- I find my PicassoII quite useable. It runs no patches, just a shared
- library and Expansion driver. But I do hope they get some good support
- from RTG within Workbench/Intuition.
-
- >- The GUI needs a complete rework. Not only that menus can't be controlled
- >from keyboard, gadgets lack the feature of cycling through them by cursor
-
- Sure you can. Just press R-Amiga+R-Alt, then use the cursor keys to
- navigate the menus, press RETURN to select a menu option or R-Amiga+R-Alt
- to cancel/close the menu. I've heard through the grapevine that the
- CycleToMenu feature just may be in the new AmigaOS. :)
-
- >inner representation of the GUI system is totally out of date. IBM made an
- >effort to reach user friendliness in 1991 with the Common User Access
- >Style Guide. This guide contained notebook-like property boxes and
-
- How about: Amiga User Interface Style Guide from Commodore-Amiga, Inc.,
- copyright 1991. I have a copy.
-
- >containers (for icon boxes, tree views and a spreadsheet-like view). And
- >Windows included most of them in 95. Not the Amiga.
-
- No problem if you have DirectoryOpus, it slices, it dices, it does darn
- near anything you want it to. ;-)
-
- >This development is due to the imo genius way control elements are handled
- ^^^^^^
- >under Windows. Each element is a window (with the one you can drag around
- ^^^^^^^
-
- I wonder why my oxymoron alarm just went nuts? ;-D
-
- >as the topmost) of a specified class, which can hold subwindows. And it's
- >the window that receives messages for user I/O. So you can easily create a
-
- This must be similar to the Amiga CONsole device/window. I wonder where
- they got that idea? :)
-
- >Clemens Marschner
-
- --
-
- Steve Edford
- sledford@iglou.com
-