Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!FANDM.BITNET!NJ_GOKEMEIJE From: NJ_GOKEMEIJE@FANDM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: DE-MACIFICATION OF THE AMIGA Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 18:23:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 42 >From: IN%"tappek@infonode.ingr.com" "J. Kurt Tappe" 28-JUN-1991 13:02:00.77 > >>philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: [ MORE ELABORATE STUFF DELETED ] >Amen. And I think it's agreed on both sides that we're missing >indicators to tell the user that there are screens or windows >behind the ones we are viewing. I'd love to see this on BOTH >the Amiga and Mac. On the mac, I often have large windows that >completely cover small ones, and I hate to move them to get at >the ones underneath because the Desktop saves the new position >unless I put them back! On the Amiga, I often have 4-6 screens >open at once, and there is no quick way to jump directly to >a certain one without flipping thru all the others. >Mods to both systems needed! :-) > >Kurt With system 7.0 on the MAC you can hide all other applications except the current one, which will clean the desktop, and you can choose the applications from the icon-menuitem-list-thingie in the right in the menubar. And more and more programs have an menuitem called windows, which allows you to directly go to the window you want. Off course you can still loose windows behind others, but it is a step in the right direction. On the AMIGA there is a public domain utility that creates a window orso, that allows you also to directly choose what screen you want to go to. That is also a step in the right direction. Unfortunately I think it is kinda big, so I don't use it on my 1 MEG A500. (50 K orso is a wild guess) Hope it helps, Nils Gokemeijer (NJ_GOKEMEIJE@FandM.bitnet) O O O O \ \ \ \ There is more in life _\_______\_______\_______\______ then CREW, ~~~~~~~____F_and_M_CREW________________~~~~~~~~ but not much! / / / / / / / / O O O O