Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!oucsace!oucs!arp
From: arp@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU (John Gordos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: WorkBench Dreams
Keywords: I wish..
Message-ID: <720@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 8 Dec 88 15:20:33 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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	Folks,

	I've got something that I'd REALLY like to see added to
	the WorkBench;  Being able to "click" on an icon AND
	while it opens, "click" on another icon AND... well, you
	get the idea.

	It would be nice to click on a drawer, have the window open,
	see the next drawer you want (but not all the icons in the
	first have appeared yet) and click on "drawer number 2" and
	have it start to open.   That sort of thing.   Another buy
	would be to be able to click on the close gadget of a window
	and have it close BEFORE it displays all the icons in the
	window.

	I'm sure that the problem probably lies in layers and that
	it'd be non-trivial to implement, but it'd really get the
	point of multi-tasking across.   My wife doesn't understand
	multitasking really;  All she knows is that the WorkBench 
	is enough like a MAC that she can use it.   If the WorkBench
	seemed to multitask more than it does, it would surely help
	us both;  I can scoot around with that mouse much quicker than
	my floppies can display a drawer!

	And, IMHO, the shell's use of run and aliases is busted; If
	you are running a shell and use run to "spawn" a new process,
	it should spawn a shell, and not a cli.   It's important to
	present a consistent interface to an end user.  I *know* why
	an alias isn't expanded in a run command, but I also think
	that there isn't much point in aliasing something if it won't
	be used 100% consistently.  Needing to remember that aliasing
	works in all cases EXCEPT with run is not consistent.

	Waiting for flames,
	John

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