Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!zooey.Berkeley.EDU!c162-de From: c162-de@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Class Account) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist Message-ID: <16770@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 1 Sep 89 18:41:21 GMT References: <12878@well.UUCP> <16025@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1989Aug8.220028.13827@nc386.uucp> < <64360@linus.UUCP> <4472@amiga.UUCP> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: c162-de@zooey.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David Navas) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 27 In response to the request for icon shrinkage, I have a little (I hope) to add. Having designed a WB replacement, I went to some trouble to get a range of views on what should be done about interlace rendering, etc. The problem is that many people have very differing opinions (gee, so when am I going to say anything useful anyway?). Some wanted to design dithering schemes to the interlace mode, some wanted dithering schemes to the non-interlaced mode, some wanted two separate icon images (I wonder what they will do with 1-bitplane, four images??), the list goes on. When I designed Jazzbench (well, when I wrote it -- I didn't actually design the thing...just kinda came together [mostly]) I decided to avoid the issue entirely. I'm now designing (yes, designing) Jazz 0.9, and am going to have enough hooks to add your favorite scruncher-decruncher-icon loader-window opens-etc. (I'm looking for somebody to make seamless operation on the IBM side as well...). At any rate, it seems to me the easiest way to resolve this is to use a callback function, and then supply a default "cruncher". That way people with 256K (gads!!), will still be able to run clock (and that's about it :-}), and people with lots of memory can have more features. In other words, there is no reason to build an architecturally closed user- interface on an architecturally open machine. 'nough said. David Navas c162-de@zooey.Berkeley.Edu Author of Jazzbench -- suggestions appreciated And that's all there was, cause there ain't no more