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From: rick@agora.UUCP (Rick Lahrson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench features
Summary: Suggestion to redefine L-Amiga-N and L-Amiga-M
Keywords: screens
Message-ID: <1524@agora.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 89 21:09:18 GMT
References: <4273@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: rick@.UUCP (Rick Lahrson)
Organization: Organization?  You've got to be kidding!
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In article <4273@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer) writes:
>I've noticed that several programs that open custom screens don't provide
>screen depth rearrangement.  An example of this would be the "Shanghai"
...
>Or, if the "screen-to-front" gadget is as completely useless as it seems
>to be, maybe IT could be redefined instead. 
...
>Brian Rhodefer

I'll again offer a suggestion I made regarding this issue years ago:

A better use of the two key combinations used for WB-to-front and 
WB-to-back might be to define one as a toggle for the workbench, and
the other as a cycling mechanism (frontmost-screen-to-back).

The L-Amiga-N combination (WB-to-front) could be the toggle.  If the WB
screen were not at the front, it would be brought forward.  If already
at the front, it would be pushed to the back.

The L-Amiga-N combination (WB-to-back) could be the cycler.

The new functions would look very similar to the existing functions,
except the use of the N and M keys would no longer have the ability to
do nothing (as they do now when the workbench screen is already where
the keys would put them).

The new functions would allow easy access to ANY screen, and would let
users toggle between ANY screen and the workbench.

Commodore:  Will you please consider making this change?