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Subject: Re: Better Windows?
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Date: Thu, 14-May-87 12:50:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 14 12:50:51 1987
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In article <8705130929.AA17766@cogsci.berkeley.edu> bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
>In article <> pete@gpu.utcs.totonto.edu
>>  Wouldn't it make more sence to allow WINDOWS to have there own menu systems?
>> These could be modal (only the active windows menus available) or semi-modal
>> (active and desktop available). This kind of scheme would make multitasking
>> much more intuitive.
>
> You just described "Intuition", the Amiga user interface. Each window may
> be attached to a menu strip.  *poof*.

 Then I applaud Intuition. Good Idea. (I have only really used Mac and ST
a lot.)
>
> On the Mac desk accesories can add a extra menu item to the far left of
> the application's.  Try 'key caps' to see this in action.
 I have seen this in action, but I don't like it. One tends to start to
expect the DESKTOP menu functions to control your accessory. Which of course
they usually don't.

>
>
>> Now if someone could come up with a graphic rendition of Pipes and
>> I/O routing, we'd be laughing...
>
> Yeaahhhhhaa, that's it. (in my best Saturday Night Live voice)
 Funny how such a visual metaphor is so hard to implement...

 One more idea. One of the reasons I often drop down to a command interpreter
while using my ST is that I can pass multiple files as arguments to many
programs (ex: cat a.t b.t > c.t).
 Wouldn't it make sense to be able to HIGHLIGHT these multiple files from
the desktop by single clicking, and then ACTIVATE the program by double
clicking on it. The result being the filenames (+ volumes/subdirectories?)
being passed to the programs in argv,argc form.

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Pete Santangeli
pete@utgpu


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>Greetings, Earthling  -Bryce Nesbitt-