Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!adobe!heaven!glenn From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXTstep 2.0 interesting features... Keywords: dvorak keyboard mapping Message-ID: <368@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Date: 16 Dec 90 23:29:42 GMT References: Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA Lines: 37 In article declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) writes: > >I finally got a chance to sit down with NeXTstep 2.0, and discovered >some interesting things. >* One minor squabble: one can no longer reorder the various "panels" >in Preferences. Yes you can. Hold down the Control key when you drag the panels. >* There are lots of nice features added. Things like including >support for banner pages, lots of color icons in /NextDeveloper/Demos, >the ability to boot using only a specified amount of memory (say 8 MB >on a 16 MB system), and so on. How do you turn on banner pages? Why would you want to boot with only 8MB of memory on a 16MB system, out of curiosity? You have "dvorak keyboard mapping" in your Keywords: line in the posting, but there's nothing about Dvorak mappings in your posting :-) Maybe you meant to mention the new demo program called "Keyboard" that lets you visually remap the keyboard any way you want to (presumably including a Dvorak layout) and store it so it is selectable from Preferences, which looks pretty cool (and a great way to confuse your friends when they're not looking). I actually use the File Viewer for copying files and other kinds of maintenance now that it supports background copying and moving. I had long since given up on the 1.0 workspace manager in favor of typing obscure UNIX commands into shell windows; the new workspace is much, much nicer to work with. -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us PostScript/NeXT developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785