Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!peregrine!ccicpg!felix!tgate!ka3ovk!drilex!axiom!linus!sdl From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist Message-ID: <64360@linus.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 89 15:54:19 GMT References: <12878@well.UUCP> <16025@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1989Aug8.220028.13827@nc386.uucp> < Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA Lines: 42 In-reply-to: johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU's message of 9 Aug 89 22:03:26 GMT In article <16163@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Vince Lee) writes: > What I want to see is auto-shrinking of icons in interlace so I don't have > to edit EVERY GODDAMN ICON on EVERY DISK that I get! I agree. Workbench 1.4 should incorporate this feature. > ....the Amiga is a great machine, [but] what most people see is the > incredibly cheezy-looking workbench with its C64-looking icons. > When they compare this with the sleek, professional-looking Mac with > its sharp, crisp text and icons.... It's not just the text and icons, it's also the appearance of the *windows*. Workbench's windows (featureless white borders on a blue background, with no drop shadows) are the worst looking of any modern window system I've seen. (Yes, of course you can change the colors, but not the design of the window borders.) Compare the Amiga's windows with those on the NeXT user interface, for example. NeXT also has a 2-bitplane desktop, but the windows use colors so as to give the window borders a pleasing, two-dimensional appearance. At the very least, Workbench 1.4 should provide a dropshadow feature comparable to the PD "Dropshadow 2.0" program. If there ever is a "Workbench 2.0," I hope it will offer windows that look like those on OSF/Motif, for example. Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Fone: (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford.arpa UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Those who will be able to conquer software will be able to conquer the world." -- Tadahiro Sekimoto, president, NEC Corp.