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From: sjorr@rose.waterloo.edu (Stephen Orr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wishlist continues
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Date: 23 Jun 89 15:58:34 GMT
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In article <640@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@leibniz.uucp () writes:
>We should be able to drag icons on to the WorkBench screen and 
>'snapshot' them there so whenever you insert that disk into the
>drive, not only will the disk icon appear, but so will any other
>project/tool/drawer icons that you snapshotted onto the WorkBench.
>This can't be too difficult to implement can it?

I agree, and have been thinking that Commodore should address this
'feature'. At present I invoke MyMenu which allows customized menus
(and pop-off menus) complete with hot-keys to be added to the
workbench. This is almost as good (maybe better - less screen clutter!)
for hard drive users, and common programs where opening the floppy for 
just one program is too much effort...

>The icon being on the WorkBench should still know where everything
>lives (i.e. what path it came from).  This path could possibly be
>stored in the 'info'.

More important than where the program came from (as WB already takes
care of that, is the way to tell WB which icons to bring out. We can't
expect WB to scan the ENTIRE disk for info structures and check each one
to see if it should be displayed on the WB can we? Maybe some sort of
deamon could be created which maintains a small file in the root dir 
(.info2 ?) of a disk and somehow convinces WB to pull thos icons out.

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