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From: rosenbergr@abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg, Computer Science, ]bo Akademi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: More 1.4 whishes
Message-ID: <5442@abo.fi>
Date: 23 Feb 89 11:07:06 GMT
Organization: Abo Academy, Finland
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Maybe now is the time to say what I want in 1.4 instead of asking why the
things aren't there when it comes.

- New files should have their icons rendered automatically by workbench.
  Having to close the window and reopening it is not good.
  (Send a FILECREATED/DELETED) message to all tasks wanting to find out
  whether files have been created/deleted in certain directories.

- If I drag an icon onto the workbench screen outside it's window it should
  stay there until I move it back (should be there after boot).

- A printer icon would be a nice hack. Just drag what you want to print onto
  the icon and drop it..

- A postscript printer driver.

- A extendable preferences program (calling sub-preferences-program)
  This would give place for extra preferences. For example a
  dmouse-preferences and the like. Maybe the features of dmouse could be
  included as standard (selectable with preferences of course).

- An autoexec-directory: execute all programs and scripts in this
  drawer on startup. Then I would only have to drag icons into this
  directory to make them part of my startup.

- More intuition things. Like a scrolling `requester'. *Standard* font
  and file requesters [GimmeFileName] (don't like the jungle). Draggable
  gadgets. A library of routines making intuition programming *easy*. 

- A 'national.library' with information about date-format, collating sequences
  and other things that vary between countries.

If these things are already there, fine. Otherwise, don't say nobody asked for
them.
hmm, I probably forgot something. 
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Robin Rosenberg,  ]bo Akademi, FINLAND
Address: Finn|, 22340 Geta, ]LAND - FINLAND
     or  Studentbyn 40A3, 20510 ]BO, FINLAND
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