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- From: davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn)
- Subject: Re: ENHANCEMENTS: C= Please consider this
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.072944.14567@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>
- Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
- References: <Bz9rHw.8Ls@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:29:44 GMT
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- In article <Bz9rHw.8Ls@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >
- >I'm surprised not a lot of people talk about changing AmigaDOS. It has
- >a couple things that would be better off gone (IMO)..
- >
- >1) Snapshotting. It would be much better if the DOS would remember
- >where you put things, like the rest of the icon-based DOS's do. To
- >quote a friend of mine, "Snapshot my ass."
-
- No. There's nothing much more annoying than coming to my PC at work (running
- Windows) and finding icons out of place because one of the clumsy people
- around here accidentally dragged an icon when trying to double-click it.
- If you've carefully arranged your icons in Windows, it's just so easy to lose.
- Too easy. Using snapshot makes the saving of icon positions a deliberate
- action, and, in my opinion, is one of Workbench's best features.
-
- >2) Window activation/depth. If windowA is behind windowB, and windowA's
- >depth gadget is obstructed, it's kind of a hassle to move them around so
- >you can change A's depth. Yes, it's lazy. :) It would be great if all
- >you had to do was click on windowA's titlebar to activate it and bring
- >it to the very front.
-
- Yes, so long as it's possible to activate a window without bringing it to
- the front. I like being able to type into a partially obscured window.
- OpenLook has this behaviour - click in a window to activate, or anywhere in the
- title or border to bring to the front. That's how it should work.
-
-
- --
- David Meiklejohn (davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au)
- - PC's, Unix, and networks by day, Amigas by night...
- Currently residing in Mareeba, Far North Queensland, Australia
-