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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why is everyone bitching about Workbench
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Date: 26 Oct 90 17:54:43 GMT
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In article <6895@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <35239@cup.portal.com> Lee_Robert_Willis@cup.portal.com writes:
>> What is it specifically that people don't like about the old Workbench?
>
>As the author of a fairly popular workbench replacement (browser), I'd like
>to answer in two words: ".info files". Workbench 2.0 addresses the main

And as an author of YAWBR (Jazzbench), I wouldn't mind putting in a few of
my own:
	1.  Windows can't be closed while directory is loaded.
		- in the incarnation of 2.0 I have, this is not fixed.
		- it's expecially severe when you open C:, and it takes 11
		   seconds to load it (on my A3000!).  Jazzbench takes about
		   4-5 secs.
	2.  Couldn't cancel any copy commands, and couldn't do anything
		while they were occuring anyway.
	3. (#include more_ranting_of_the_same)

	In the new WB2.0 I see the following problems.

	1.  Directory listings of things like c: take far longer than they
		should due to what looks like a problem finding space to
		slip an icon into.
	2.  Show_All_Files has to go back to disk to get the directory.
		On a floppy, that's painful.
	3.  Copies, drawer openings are still single-threaded.
	4.  No access to devices like prt: par: ser: pipe:, etc.

They did do a lot of things right, and improved somewhat the general
feel of the program.  But I'd like to be able to drag that text file onto
my prt: icon.  Either that or that idiot who wrote Jazzbench should write
one that runs under 2.0 :)

>but it's good enough I don't use browser at all any more.
and not quite good enough that I still miss running jazz.  Wish I knew why
it crashed under 2.0....


David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me
								(and Calvin)