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- From: mdf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Martin Frost)
- 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
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 11:33:06 -0000
- Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- In article <2477.6641T698T2915@actcom.co.il>, arielmag@actcom.co.il (Ariel Magnum) writes:
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- >3. Ability to edit menu without a hack that destoyes many others (toolsdeamon)
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- I don't know toolsdaemon, but it already is very easy to add menu items to the
- tools menu. I believe the relevant function is AddAppMenuItemA.
-
- >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.
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- What's wrong with the preferences programs? I suppose they can be a bit
- small on high-res screens, but I still prefer speed over (dubious) aesthetics.
- The speed of the Amiga's GUI is one of its best points. Throwing it away with
- some gimmick like MUI is not my idea of a smart move, and sticking such a
- cycle-waster in the OS, where I can't delete it, would be just stupid.
-
- >8. Making mutitasking a bit smarter - Settaskpre is definetly not idiot
- > proof.
-
- Well, if you don't understand it, don't use it. I suppose you'd like the
- Windoze multitasking model with absolutely no control over priorities.
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- >9. Compiling the ROMs to varius CPU's.
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- Why? This is only needed if Amigas are sold with different CPUs, in which case
- I am sure this would be done.
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- >10. Text And image clipping from all windows.
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- This is done, only to the window boundary rather than the inner border.
-
- >11. A format command that works (how lame!)
-
- Works fine for me, unless you mean formatting bad disks, which isn't really
- necessary nowadays with disks as cheap and reliable as they are. The only time
- I really have bad sectors on my disks is when I reuse magazine coverdisks,
- which appear to usually be the sort of disks that you can buy 10 for #1.50.
-
- Martin
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