Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!ecwu61 From: ecwu61@castle.ed.ac.uk (R Renwick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: suggestions Message-ID: <8497@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 14 Feb 91 15:33:06 GMT References: Organization: Edinburgh University Lines: 43 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes: >ecwu61@castle.ed.ac.uk (R Renwick) writes: >> Well I ain't ever used an OS that has a built in 'undelete' >>facility. > >You've never used a Macintosh? Never used an Amstrad PCW? Ah, well. Well I could never find a pair of binoculars strong enough to let me read the writing on a mac screen and I could find one with a radius screen. :-) As for using an Amstrad .......... NEVER >:-) > >>> Group selection of icons within a window would be useful. If you're familiar >>> with the Atari machines you'll know what I mean. Being able to have a rubber >>> banded selection area would make things a lot simpler when operating upon >>> a lot of files. >> >> Yuch!!!!!!! Windows 3 on the PC allows you to do this and it >>make the overall appearence of the desktop look terrible. I like to see >>the files in nice neat lines and in alphabetical order so I know where >>in a window to look for a particular file. > >That's an entirely separate issue. GEM on the ST allows you to rubber-band >icons; it also lists them in neat lines and in alphabetical order. >You can have your icon and eat it, too. > Oops, my mistake! Sorry! =============================================================================== ############ Richard Renwick ecwu61@uk.ac.ed.castle # # Computer Science 4 OR rlr@uk.ac.ed.lfcs @ ~~~ ~~~ @ University of Edinburgh |\@ ** ** @/| Edinburgh | @ ** ** @ | |/@ || @\| @ \ || / @ @ \______/ @ "Doesn't the grass look funny from underneath?" @ @ - Penfold @@@@@@@@@@ ===============================================================================