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- Here's a summary of the suggestions for feasible projects for Executor
- 1.99b -> Executor 2.0. I tried to only omit suggestions I thought
- would have to wait for 2.1 and beyond, and I haven't listed the bugs
- for specific apps that people have sent us. If you see something
- missing, let me know ASAP. Your feedback largely drives the
- development process over here, so help us keep our existing customers
- happy and pick up zillions of new ones. :-)
-
- No one suggested it, but wouldn't a killer color splash screen be
- nice? Are there any artists out there willing to donate their
- services? I can't guarantee we'll use your work, but we'd like to at
- least experiment with alternatives to our boring splash screen.
-
- -Mat
- mat@ardi.com
-
-
- General
- -------
- - Make Mac installation programs work (e.g. installing Word directly).
- - Simple finder-like capability
- - Better documentation
- a. Less technical, more verbose
- b. How to transfer Mac programs and data (e.g. from BBS's)
- c. How to install Mac programs
- d. What runs and what doesn't
- e. a FAQ
- - Cut and paste has problems with some programs
- - Increase the RAM available to the user beyond 8MB
- - Allow bits per pixel to change on the fly
- - Allow the user to change the screen size (command line option under DOS,
- resizing window under Linux and NEXTSTEP).
- - Change the bundled programs
- a. Remove UnAdobe
- b. Add
- 1. Compact Pro
- 2. Stuffit Expander (might have problems)
- 3. Show Sizes (if finder app can't do it)
- 4. Teach Text
- 5. Simple paint program
- 6. Something to allow user to alter resource fork stuff.
- - Make Font/DA Mover work
- - Add a simple "-bpp" option so you don't need to say "-realbpp 8 -macbpp 8".
- - Special student pricing for 2.0
-
- DOS
- ---
- - Default to 256 colors if the board supports it
- - Mystery I/O errors on floppy disk accesses for large files
- - Windows icon
- - DOS box settings for OS/2 and pif file for Win3.1
- - Installer should:
- a. Prompt for a directory for where to install the program
- b. Let you create new HFS volumes
- - Support 8 bit color under DPMI (e.g. Windows and OS/2). Someone claims
- this works, but it shouldn't.
-
- NeXT
- ----
- - Support IPT's appleshare format
- - Put Executor's default MacVolume outside of Executor.app, so that
- reinstalling Executor doesn't smash the old MacVolume
- - Fix screen resizing problems
-
- Linux
- -----
- - Floppy support
- - Serial port support
- - Fix screen resizing bug
- - Fix Executor so it works with XFree 3.1. Which should we do:
- a. Dynamically link with the 3.1 libs and tell people to use XFree 3.1?
- b. Statically link with the 3.1 libs?
- c. Statically link with the 2.1.1 libs?
- - Support bits per pixel other than 8.
- - Support a mode where Executor defaults to a colormap that's as similar
- to the rest of the screen as possible, to minimize the weirdness when
- switching back and forth from the Executor window.
- - Support a "-geometry" option.
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-