Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0! Message-ID: <7662@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 30 Jan 91 12:54:55 GMT References: <1991Jan27.105252.7019@marlin.jcu.edu.au> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 29 In article <1991Jan27.105252.7019@marlin.jcu.edu.au> glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd) writes: > 2) Quiting workbench. Why should you be able to quit workbench > without running any programs? You are left in a totally useless > position! How does Workbench know if you have programs running or not? > 8) No keyboard macro for delete. It is used more than some of the > others yet there is no macro for it. And I'm glad there isn't! > 13) Detecting files > It is simple to detect IFF sound/pic files. This should be > done, and if the file doesn't have an icon/default tool, then > Double clicking should display/play the file. This is getting close to unwarranted chumminess with the applications. Besides, if the problem of not being able to create an icon from WB went away this would not be such a big deal. > 22) Can't empty trash unless trash can lid open! Stupid. You can have multiple trashcans, remember... one per volume. How is it to know which one you want to empty? It goes by the selected one. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .