Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!betelgeuse!carlson From: carlson@betelgeuse (Richard L. Carlson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in 1.4 Keywords: System requesters, bootable disks Message-ID: <10204@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 22 Feb 89 05:44:25 GMT References: <1984@daimi.dk> <10196@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: carlson@ernie.berkeley.edu (Richard L. Carlson) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 35 In article <10196@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c152-cb@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Vince Lee) writes: >In article <1984@daimi.dk> hrc@daimi.dk (Henrik Raeder Clausen) writes: >>I'd like in 1.4 to have the System Requesters tell the user what file >>some program is looking for (like devs:disk-validator). This would be a > >This really doesn't make any sense. It's really the program's responsibility >to inform you what files it can't find. Some programs check for files in >several locations. But this shouldn't really matter; we're not talking about making *more* system requesters show up than already do, just about having them give more information once they do. Keep in mind, some programs try to find something somewhere, but do not consider it an error if they can't find it. Thus, you never know exactly what they're looking for. I recall when I first started using MicroEmacs, it would ask me to insert workbench every time I started it, but worked fine if I cancelled the requester. It took me several weeks before I got annoyed enough to systematically assign different things to RAM: until I found the one that MicroEmacs was using (probably s:). And sometimes, if a requester "mysteriously" comes up (I think disk-validator is a good example), I know *I* would like to know what is going on, to get an indication of whether I want to comply with the requester or save time by just cancelling it. Actually, what I would like to see is a *third* option in the system requester, between the other two, labeled "Why". That way, the regular system requester would have the same text (and not be cluttered), but if you wanted to find out exactly what was being looked for, "Why" would give you that extra information. -- Richard {tektronix,dual,sun,decvax,...}!ucbvax!ernie!carlson carlson@ernie.berkeley.edu