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From: jwl@Feanor.Stanford.EDU (John Lockhart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: wiconify, was 1.4 wish list
Summary: How about icons in the Clipboard?
Keywords: RE: 1.4 Enhancement Wish List
Message-ID: <8207@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Apr 89 06:42:45 GMT
References: <504@morgoth.UUCP> <3453@amiga.UUCP> <505@morgoth.UUCP> <716@ibmpa.UUCP> <13513@steinmetz.ge.com> <17329@cisunx.UUCP>
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Organization: Does this look organized??
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In article <17329@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>In article <13513@steinmetz.ge.com> perley@trub.steinmetz.ge.com (Donald P Perley) writes:
>>In article <716@ibmpa.UUCP> ericm@ibmpa.UUCP (Eric Murray) writes:
>
>>>More 1.4 wish list entries (for Workbench)....
>
>>>2.	Add an 'iconify' gadget to CLI windows. I know there's at least one 
>
>Or even better, "wicon", which uses small windows lined up on the bottom
>of your screen.  This way, you don't have to have the workbench up and

I agree about iconifying CLI windows.  I was struck with an idea, though.
How about being able to iconify whatever you copy to the Clipboard?  This
might be blocks of text or graphics or whatever.  You could have multiple
things sitting around just waiting to be used wherever, whenever you want,
as many times as you want.  Jeez, I shudder to think how easy boilerplate
letters could get :-)


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