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From: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.073017.12620@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 30 Jan 91 07:30:17 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.105252.7019@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <783@cbmger.UUCP>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <783@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>In article <1991Jan27.105252.7019@marlin.jcu.edu.au> glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes:
>>
>>8) No keyboard macro for delete.  It is used more than some of the
>>others yet there is no macro for it.
>
>This is probably intentional. Deleting the wrong thing is extremely
>hazardous. I guess the user shall be protected from making errors by
>making this action a bit more complicated.
>
There is a requester asking you if you really want to do it, it's good
enough protection.

>>10) Can't create icons from Workbench for files which don't have
>>them.  How many new computer users are going to realize they
>>can load IconEdit and stuff around.  If they are trying to get the
>>system to automatically "more" a text file and it doesn't have an
>>icon....
>
>Don't understand that. You CAN invoke IconEdit from the WB. Do you
>want it to become a menu item on the WB? If yes, then this is
>possible today with utilities like MyMenu (ok, not in normal
>shipment).

What colin moent to say was that if workbench creates the icon for
you it should create specialized ones for different files ie asm,iff,
smus, etc.

eg. tell workbench to create default icons for a group of text files
    and none of them will have `tool type' options !

>>19) Moving files should change tooltypes.  The Mac can handle this.
>>Otherwise a user can move a file, then wonder why it doesn't work
>>when they click on it.  I have seen people do this.  They then proceed
>>to click 10 times on it....             
>
>I think this (on the Mac) is due to the "Finder" concept. You can
>argue very much about it (good and bad). But I can imagine VERY
>difficult situations for the system to guess for new tooltypes
>paths. I fear this is impossible to solve in every situation.

>
>>20) DiskDoctor -> doesn't format for you
>
>Hmm, why should it???
>
Just the opther day i had a disk with a few corrupt sectors, i used
diskdoctor on it and the disk sould have been restored to it's original
state, not just locking out the sectors/files that were corrupt and
telling me to copy the files to a new disk.

>>23) File Search.  There is a very big need for a file search program.
>>It should be useable from WB as well.
>
>Huh? The CLI Search command does this! And you CAN invoke every CLI
>program from WB under 2.0.
>
Are you referring to which?? This works from the directories with are in
the current path and current dir.

>>25) No mention of color errors in bootup.  
>
>Ok, would make some valid lines in the "Trouble shooting" part of
>the user manual.

Include an explanation of the GURU numbers as well, thanks.
>
>-- 
>Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
>Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk

Matt Crowd.