Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!motcsd!mcdcup!mcdchg!laidbak!amiganet!arctngnt From: arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: KS2.0 release Message-ID: Date: 31 May 91 00:30:16 GMT References: <1991May29.161601.28693@coplex.uucp> Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems Lines: 54 2.0 roms will be released in 3rd quater, aye? You forgot to add on a +2 months to that.. I wouldnt be surprised if I waited until late December or early '92 till I saw the final burnins. As for current Workbench, I have Version 37_47...Cosmetically, its great. Though I DO have a few unexplained gurus, and a few minor gripings. For example: When I use JrCOmm 1.01, And the screen flashes (for beeps) it sometimes leaves the Workbench screen is like a freeze-frame. It screws up the color pallete, for instance, leaving my Workbench screen a lovely puke yellow instead of returning back to marble-blue theway I like it.. Afte an occassional guru (after some massive task suspension) While the system recovers, the screen is black, and in red garble. Kinda tacky. The font editor on the Extras disk chops off pieces of the icon if you arrow-click their position to move out of the screen, and back into view. The workbench itself. Everytime I load it, I remove the Workbench Backdrop.. (Up in the menu).. The backdrop itself is essentially useless, since there are utilities for workbench scrolling on the disk (for having super-bitmap workbenches, and stuff..) ...Super-bitmap Workbench screens also look better than a Backdrop, plus theyre faster... Would be cool if the "loadwb" command could have some subcommands to it, so instead of just "loadwb" yu could have "loadwb nobackdrop" instead, to automatically cancel the creation of a backdrop. Or perhaps just enter it as a Parameter setting, if you want a Backdrop on or off during bootup. Easier access to adding commands to the Tools menu of Workbench. Ive got quite a list of things id like to chuck in there, and there is no Utility to do this from inside Workbench, OR on the Extras disk.. So ive resorted to scanning my local BBS'es for utility programs that let you add selection to the Tools menu.. So far, these programs have been poorly made, and badly documented. Make 2.0 a modifyablee wonderland. Make a whole load of commands in the Workbench menu. The Macintosh has D/A Mover..Where you can access programs anywhere by opening a menu.. Would be cool if you could teach Workbench to lookfor a specific directory on adisk like "stuff"....Whatever program you copied into the "stuff" directory would appear in a menu from the Workbench screen, or anywhere else for that matter. Just some ideas. And remember, when finalizing the 2.04 roms. ALWAYS make room for Jell-O Arc