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From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: I  Intuition
Message-ID: <210@dragon.tc.fluke.COM>
Date: Wed, 24-Dec-86 12:49:27 EST
Article-I.D.: dragon.210
Posted: Wed Dec 24 12:49:27 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Dec-86 05:36:47 EST
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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I like the workbench.  I am an experienced software engineer and I use both
the workbench and CLI.  I understand how command line interfaces work and am
comfortable with commands.  I know the CLI allows you to put all your options
into the command line.  BUT I LIKE TO USE INTUITION BETTER.  It is more
visual, gives more cues about what you are doing.  It is not terrible.  It is
not too slow.  What's wrong with you guys anyway?  The Amiga disk is FAST
compared to many many systems I have used.  Maybe the complainers are people
who don't know what slow is really like?



I do wish people would be careful with the icons.  There is a standard form
for project, tool, and drawer icons, and when people go crazy drawing their
own cute pictures for icons, the user interface looses its consistency.
When you make a new tool, remember that a prototypical tool icon looks like 
o 3-d box, and a project icon looks like a page of paper with a corner
folded down, and try to draw your cute icon within the outline of this
structure.  It makes life easier for the people who like to use intuition.

It is a serious problem that you can create objects without the .info files
using the cli and have invisible files.  The system should do something.
Maybe display automatically a sort of default TOOL, DRAWER, or PROJECT icon
for files with no icon and posessing the property of executable, directory,
or .  

Another solution would be to put the icon image and location into the
directory.  This makes directories bigger, but what the heck.  Directory
listing and cleaning up is faster since there is only 1 file written.  Maybe
better disk caching or revision of the storage algorithm would also improve
things...

I too wish I knew more about using the tool types thingie in the .info file.
It isn't in any manual in obvious form, although I bet it is available in a
diffuse way in the Intuition manual.



Oh, yeah, file globbing.  Quit whining.  File globbing on an argument by
argument basis is no problem if there is a good library function for file
globbing.  It makes programs more genral for an only slightly increased
programmer effort.  Like anything else, if it gets to be the fashion to do
file globbing in the commands, everyone will feel like they have to do it and
(virtually) all commands will have it.  It is more flexible to have commands
do globbing.