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From: wncs302@nmtsun.nmt.edu (William Norris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Talking to Workbench
Keywords: Workbench, snapshot, upgrade, 1.4
Message-ID: <1627@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 88 04:51:56 GMT
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Reply-To: wncs302@nmtsun.nmt.edu (William Norris)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM
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In article <686@myrias.UUCP> cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray) writes:
>In article <1606@nmtsun.nmt.edu> wncs302@nmtsun.nmt.edu (William Norris) writes:
>>As long as we're talking about WB facelifting:
>>	*	Keyboard shortcuts for the menus 
>>		What an IDEA!!  And soooo hard to implement.
>>	*	Get rid of snapshot.
>>	*	Select an area of icons a la Macintosh.
>
>DON'T get rid of snapshot! I use it to arrange things so that the windows
>come out where I want them. When you have a bunch of stuff on a hard disk,
>this can be quite useful, else you end up with a big mishmash of windows
>scattered all over the place. I don't regularly use the WorkBench, but when
>I do, I prefer it to be tidy. For deeply nested drawers, I tend to make
>all of the contained ones open up just inside the top-left corner of the
>containing one. I also rearrange and resize them for minimum size.

I also like to rearrange my icons and windows.  What I don't like, however,
is having to select all these things (ESPECIALLY WITHOUT A SELECT ALL)
and then do a snapshot.  It would be nice if Workbench would automatically
update this stuff.

Also, how about standard system gadgets for ZOOM?  
Something like in excellence!


					William B. Norris IV