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From: dillon@CLOUD9.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Talking to Workbench
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Date: 9 Dec 88 18:56:39 GMT
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:>	*	Keyboard shortcuts for the menus 
:>		What an IDEA!!  And soooo hard to implement.
:>	*	Get rid of snapshot.
:>	*	Select an area of icons a la Macintosh.
:>					William B. Norris IV
:
:DON'T get rid of snapshot! I use it to arrange things so that the windows
:come out where I want them. When you have a bunch of stuff on a hard disk,
:this can be quite useful, else you end up with a big mishmash of windows
:scattered all over the place. I don't regularly use the WorkBench, but when
:I do, I prefer it to be tidy. For deeply nested drawers, I tend to make
:all of the contained ones open up just inside the top-left corner of the
:containing one. I also rearrange and resize them for minimum size.
:
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:Chris Gray		Myrias Research, Edmonton	+1 403 428 1616
:	{uunet!mnetor,ubc-vision,watmath,vax135}!alberta!myrias!cg

I would like to see this:

	-Get rid of .info files completely.  This is why I don't use the
	 WB now.

	-Use the comment field to store information like window placement,
	 icon placement, icon name, application, etc...

	-Automatically update the comment field whenever somebody moves
	 or resizes a window, or moves an icon etc... (snapshot would 
	 thus not be needed).

	-Periodically check the timestamp on directories whos windows are
	 open to see if they have been modified (and rescan if so).

						-Matt

	Big example:  For example, I have a directory full of .C files.
(C language).  I *don't* want a thousand .icon files floating around for
them.  Sometimes I want to edit them, sometimes I want to compile them,
and currently you cannot really do that with the workbench without having
another window open holding the editor or compiler icon because double
clicking the .C file gives you just one function.

	What is all of this getting to?  Hard Disks.  This is an optimum
algorithm for the leading edge of Amiga's, with HD's and running FFS. 
Where scanning a directory is quick, and there is NO need to load extanious
files (all those .icon's) when half the directory entries reference the
same icon.

					-Matt