usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (08/28/89)
In article <16131@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) writes: >In article <688@berlioz.nsc.com> waggoner@berlioz (Mark Waggoner) writes: > >Neat idea. It would be great if we could have icons in directories, and >have the program exist in some other directory. Then we could have the >convenience of having a preferences icon in several drawers on a hard drive, You can do this with 1.3 WB. Thats how the Prefs drawer works. It has 3 icons which point to the same executable. You could just move them elsewhere, all they would (if the you change the path from INFO) >Something else that would be pretty gosh darn teriffic (and I'm not asking >for much here guys) is to have directories with multiple enterances. I mean, >you have 2 icons named utilities, in 2 diferent directories, that both take This is known as 'links'. Hard or soft would do this. If I had to pick which kind of links to have, I would prefer soft (symbolic) links. They are generally more useful/flexible, but then they can't replace the functionality of hard links. Heres another wish list: NUMBER ONE! THIS should have been there since pre 1.0. When something fails in the workbench, I don't want to see Something failed, Error 217 In the title bar. What the h*ck is "Error ###"!!!!! Neat idea: Make PATH work for all "NAME:" things. Then if a program tries to open "tools:preferences", DOS would automagically look in places specified by the PATH command. I think that this could be transparent to existing stuff, and I doubt it would cause much trouble. It would make things MUCH nicer. There would of course need to be a way to extract the path that dos used to get at the file, but this needs to be done for the executable PATH anyways. One more little nit, when the computer get turnedon/restarted place the mouse in the *middle* of the display. Its a little thing, but its nicer and trivial to do. Same thing goes for "System Requests". Put 'em in the center of the display. They are much more vizible, and on average would be closer to the mouse. If multiple Requests come up, offset the later ones so they do not completely cover up existing ones. And PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give more info in most of those requests. REAL NAME: Joe Porkka jap@frith.cl.msu.edu