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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench Discard bug
Keywords: Shift click icon type
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Date: 16 Oct 89 16:54:49 GMT
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In article <138@cbmtor.UUCP> jb@cbmtor.UUCP (Jim Butterfield ) writes:
>   1. Attempting to multiple-select an icon cancels any selection
>previously made on icons of a different class;

EEEK!   No!   Then you would not be able to start up a project with
other than the default tool.  You also would not be able to start
a tool passing it a drawer as an argument.

>           -- OR -- (probably a better idea)
>   2. Everything multiply-selected must be within one drawer or disk.

Just as bad.  This is the Mac's solution to not thinking about
directories when they first did the filesystem. Hence, all
selected files must be in the same directory so the system
can create a fake directory ID and pretend they are all on the
same disk.  Ugly and confusing.   I like best the idea of
modifyiong just the DISCARD option and not the entire selection
process, if anything must be changed at all. Fixing diskcard "bugs"
by changing the selection mechanism seems just the wrong way to do
it.		-- Darren