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- From: emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith)
- Subject: Re: More Amiga OS weaknesses and strengths
- In-Reply-To: paulk@terapin.com's message of 8 Jan 93 20:33:41 PST
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
- References: <bruce.0ds3@zuhause.MN.ORG> <paulk.35q9@terapin.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:00:57 GMT
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- In article <paulk.35q9@terapin.com> paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
-
- > > Another feature that is totally broken on the Amiga is
- > > launching of applications by double-clicking a project.
-
- it's not broken on the Amiga, it's broken on the tool :-)
- whenever the tool is started from an icon, it should be able
- to find its own absolute path by parenting the lock on itself
- it gets. it should then write this path into all project icons
- it creates.
-
- this is not perfect, since it would then be hell to move the tool.
-
- perhaps better is for a tool to have its own assign, added to the
- startup-sequence in the installation procedure.
-
- you'd still have to change that manually if you move the tool, but
- at least it's only one thing.
-
- i still think the amiga's way is better though. i had a lot of trouble
- with a mac once, when it was trying to be smart(*ss) about where the
- tool was, that i could have fixed on an Amiga in moments.
-
- > One problem with Mac icons, is that if you're doing development,
- > and you have several versions of the application, you have to click
- > on the application in order to guarantee you're using the right
- > application.
-
- Is the Workbench any better?
-
- this is just about the trouble i had with the mac. sure workbench is
- better! i could've fixed the problem on the workbench.
- --
- Hume Smith
- hume.smith@acadiau.ca
- emcoop@bnr.ca
-