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- From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: ENHANCEMENTS: C= Please consider this
- Message-ID: <8784@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 09:25:03 GMT
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- Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.
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- shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) 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! I like arranging my desktop the way i want it, then snapshotting it so
- that no matter what i do to it, it comes up the same every time i turn it on.
- I *HATE* it when the mac thinks that when i move something, i want it there
- permanently. Windows allows you to turn off saving, but i think that's kind
- of kludgey..
-
- >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.
-
- did you consider sending the window that's upstructing it to the back, then
- bringing the window you want to ther front?
-
-
- In any case, ClickToFront comes with Workbench 2.0, it's in your commodities
- drawer.
-
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