Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!johnhlee From: johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Vince Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist Message-ID: <16025@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 3 Aug 89 21:16:07 GMT References: <12878@well.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Vince Lee) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 While we're on the subject of additions to 1.4, let me put in my 2 cents worth. 1. Replace the Topaz font. I have put my own font into my kickstart, and EVERYTHING looks better and nothing is worse. Programmers need to have a font they know will always be available. My font is single-width, sans serif. True, people using TV's as monitors wouldn't like it, but even a double-width sans-serif font is better than what we have. It's simple to do, and makes the Amiga look MUCH more professional in every application. 2. Improve the audio device to allow stealing and automatic return of audio channels. The current system is too UGLY. I know of no program which checks to see if a channel has been stolen and tries to get it back. All of them either chug right along or lock the channels once they get them. 3. Shrink workbench icons in interlace mode. I've suggested this before, and others have suggested enlarging them. Enlarging them makes them take too much space (I've tried). Since Amiga Icons are too big to begin with anyway, throwing away half the pixels shrinks them to a professional-looking size. Just my two cents -Vince