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- From: kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
- Subject: Re: ENHANCEMENTS: C= Please consider this
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:09:41 GMT
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- Sam Hulick (shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- >
- > I'm surprised not a lot of people talk about changing AmigaDOS. It has
- > a couple things that would be better off gone (IMO)..
-
- Maybe that's because, overall, it pretty nice already, or because there
- are a ton freely distributable hacks out there to tweek the system to you
- liking.
-
- > 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! NO! NO!
-
- Well, ok if it's optional. I hate the way the MAC does this. I tend to
- move things or shrink them via the zoom gadget to get them out of the way
- temporarily. It used to drive me nuts when I would do this on a MAC and
- then have to re-arrange everything the next time I went to use the machine.
-
-
- > 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.
-
- Better than this is already included with AmigaDOS. Just use the commodity
- which allows you to click anywhere in the window to bring it to the front.
-
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