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From: tlm@pur-phy (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Talking to Workbench
Message-ID: <1696@pur-phy>
Date: 5 Dec 88 20:36:41 GMT
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Reply-To: tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Timothy Lee Meisenheimer)
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In article <4XaVmTy00Vsf4D0Hli@andrew.cmu.edu> mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) writes:
>daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski) writes:
>         Workbench is currently being given quite a facelift.  The things
> you mentioned above will be possible under V1.4; unfortunately you'll
> have to wait til then.  Sorry :^(
> 
>         David

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 way there would be a way to manipulate files without them all
having icons. Instead of making it just like browser, make the window wide
enough for a single column of files/directories. If you click on a directory
a second window (like the first - single column and scrollable) would open to
the right etc. This is similar to how I've seen it done on several unix-type
windowing systems(the NeXT comes to mind) and it looks versatile. One could
also imagine clicking a third mode (or just a sub-mode of the second mode :-))
that would show the size, protection bits, etc. instead of just the file name.

I really do like the icons but I think a file oriented mode would be very
usefull.

(I don't know who to credit for the current workbench but we all know who to
credit for browser!)

tlm@newton.physics.purdue.edu