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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What are menus?
Message-ID: <15045@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 13:27:57 GMT
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Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <990@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM writes:
>In article <3284@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>In article <2470@ssc-vax.UUCP>, coy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stephen B Coy) writes:
>>> Can menus be replaced with something closer to the actions they
>>> are a metaphor for?...
>>Have a look at the original mouse-menus-icons user interface... the Xerox
>>Star. It worked much like this. To print a file you dropped it in the
>>printer icon, etc... this feature (a cool one) only survives in the Trashcan.
>Don't all desktops do this? ON MY COMMODORE 64 (at home) with the GEOS operating
>system that is exactly how you print files. . . and it works for any 

Well, why couldn't we do this on the Amiga?  We have an icon for the
rad: disk and the ram: disk, why couldn't an icon be made for the prt:
device?  Maybe in ARP wb replacement?  How about 1.4?  The actual
'disk.info' file could maybe live in s: or ENV: under 'prt.info'.  But
it should show up with the disk icons.

It sure would save a lot of trouble.  There is currently no easy way to
print a file from the workbench, which strikes me as being rather silly.

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP