Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!killer!texbell!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Gee, Santa, can I have... (Re: Talking to Workbench) Message-ID: <3063@sugar.uu.net> Date: 7 Dec 88 13:14:02 GMT References: <3039@sugar.uu.net> <6457@netnews.upenn.edu> <6458@netnews.upenn.edu> <1696@pur-phy> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 28 In article <1696@pur-phy>, tlm@pur-phy (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer) writes: > Could I make a suggestion pertaining to this facelift? Would it be possible > to toggle between two modes: the first mode being the windows and pretty > icons that we all know about and a second mode which is more like that of > browser? This is basically what the other iconic interfaces provide (Mac, for example), although they don't allow multicolumn file windows (ls -C format), preferring a single column with everything (ls -l format). I'm thinking of adding a switch to Browser to allow you to get both of these formats on a window-by-window basis. I'd love to see Browser integrated into the Workbench, of course. One thing I'd like to see in Workbench is a way to window-ise the backdrop, perhaps with a menu selection, so I don't have to keep resizing my CLI to get to it. Alternatively, implementing a Mac/GEM/Windows "drag window past the edge of the desktop" capability in Intuition would solve the problem (and half a dozen others). It can't be that hard to do... it's effectively equivalent to dragging a window behind another one. > (I don't know who to credit for the current workbench but we all know who to > credit for browser!) My blushes, Watson. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Have you hugged U your wolf today? Disclaimer: My typos are my own damn busines#!rne