Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!shelby!Portia!Jessica!zelenski From: zelenski@Jessica.stanford.edu (julie zelenski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Various comments/questions/suggestions Message-ID: <2309@Portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 17 May 89 15:44:33 GMT References: <238@quartz.atexnet.UUCP> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: zelenski@Jessica.stanford.edu (julie zelenski) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 59 In article <238@quartz.atexnet.UUCP> rose@quartz.UUCP (Robert Rose) writes: > >Here is a list of some comments, suggestions, and problems I've >been having. I'm really glad to see you NeXT people (Ali and >Avadis especially) reading this newsgroup and responding! >Everybody else, too, this is a very informative and relatively >flame free forum, let's keep it up!! > > >MAIL: > >(I realize it's still young, here's some improvement suggestions) > >1) No options for inserting file, and/or saving a letter as a file. >I do this a lot! In 0.9 you can include a file in a mail message simply by dragging it from the browser into the mail message window. You can even drag directories if you want! (As Avie suggested, try dragging "/" in - I can see the Internet clogging already!) This feature is similar to that nifty bit of Paul's draw program that lets you drag PS and TIFF files into the drawing window. Neat! >INTERFACE BUILDER: > >Here's a real can of worms! I love the concepts, and think there is a lot >of good work in it already, but the user interface, and method of operation >needs some more work. It's waaaaaaaay too confusing and cluttered. By the >time you open up all the windows and palletes, it looks like you're >running six applications! It's also not at all intuitive how you >hook things up and examine conections. I totally concur about IB - it is so amazing what it can do but keeping track of everything can be a nightmare. Will there ever be some sort of graphical net-like structure to view the connections between objects? Why is the objects window so small? And I must admit that I really don't like the two way switch. In order to flip the switch you click on the gray option. To me, something gray has always meant something disabled (sorry, Macintosh bias showing...) Where are the interface guideline thought police? :) >One suggestion is with the sounds/icons palettes. >Also, with these 'resources', there is a two way switch for system >and local. This is nice, but you really need three switches; system, >local (to the user), and program only. The local is just that >program you're building. There should be a user local so something >you want to put in all your applications (like your picture!) will >be in one convienient place. Another good suggestion! I am still struggling with trying to figure out a way to move sounds and icons I have installed in one nib file to another. I can't get it to copy/paste between nib files :( julie zelenski stanford university