Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: When you wish upon a star...
Message-ID: <1307@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 21:15:34 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Time for the Expatriate Aussie to post his Top Three 1.3 wishes (the ones
that haven't yet been responded to, even by a "we can't do that because...").

	1) Make WorkBench more useful: at least add a menu switch to have ALL
	   files show up with some sorta default icons. Even having the names
	   show up as the icons. Right now, it's almost a useful tool. Some
	   sort of facility is needed, witness all the "disk utility" programs.

	2) Make workbench more useful: let people drag windows partly off the
	   screen. I can't think of any good reason to prevent this: almost
	   all the code to do this already exists to handle the case of
	   dragging a window behind another window. Think of it as a "virtual
	   workbench". It'd also be a bonus for 90% of the programs that open
	   their own screens!

	3) Make workbench more useful: implement the "drop a file in kick-off".
	   When you pick up a file and drop it on another icon, kick off the
	   icon you dropped it in as if you'd clicked the first and shift-
	   double-clicked the second. A lot of the code for *this* already
	   exists to support dropping an icon in a directory icon. As an added
	   bonus you'll add more distance between you and the Mac if Apple gets
	   antsy about look-and-feel.

I lied -- there are more than 3:

	4) Add a preferences setting (or something) for "pop-up"
	   menus. Instead of having the menu pop up at the top of the screen
	   when you hit the menu button, you'd have it pop up under the cursor.
	   Make the workbench much faster to work with *and* make the machine
	   less Mac like.

	5) Have PutIcon and PutDiskObject send a message to the Workbench to
	   tell it to refresh its windows.
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-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
-- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.