spencer@eris.UUCP (04/04/87)
In article <908@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Amiga-Man) writes: >Hi, folks. I have an idea (I think I even mentioned it before) but >now I'm even more conviced it's useful, and even vital. Here goes. > -------warning: idea coming--------- >I don't want to start up the discussion of whether it would or would not >be good to combine the icons files into a single file in each directory... > ---> a replacement for the original icon.library <--- >So, the question is: "Is there a fatal flaw in this idea?". I don't see one. >I'll write it myself. Heck, what a product ! I can see the ad: > ---> Make your workbench work N times as fast ! Instant drawers ! <--- >Anybody psyched ? Anybody working on this ? Anybody going to start ? >I'm sure that "RJ" or "duck" could have this working in a week flat. > Ralph "icon-breath" Vinciguerra Well, I have to admidt, It would be nice to have WorkBench go faster. Infact, I once heard from the Commodore people after 1.2 was released that the next release would be like 1.2a and the difference would be a changed WorkBench. I don't know what the difference would be. My position on this whole point has always been "leave it the way it is". I fear that making up disks with icons would get about 100% harder (is that alot?) I just compiled a program and I want to run it from an Icon, so I type: copy sys:clock.info C-DEVEL:test.info I then double click on that icon under WorkBench. That is easy. How do you do it on the Mac? Tools! Lots and lots of tools! That is how you do it. "Well, I moved the finded and system 5.4 to this new disk, and I am running Font/DA Mover to get all the tools I need in my environment over also" Ugh! But that is just my opinion, what is in C-A's mind (and why don't nobody call them "A-C"?). What was the reason behind the .info files? What is the reason behind the workbench speed? { You know (as randy digresses) I saw the Atari ST reading a Supra hard disk at the West Coast Computer Faire, and putting a new screen up every tenth of a second! The Amiga next to it was running on every 15 seconds (of course it wasn't reading all that time, but I don't think that it can do 1/10th of a second.) Hardware guy blamed it on Amigados. Wait, did I already relate this story? Sorry if I did. } I just don't remember what the comments were from Commodore the last time that the net got all wrapped up in wheather to mess with the WorkBench or not. I don't remember whole lot of defense of .info files. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)284-4740 I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)283-5469 Now working for |||||||||||::::... . . BUD-LINX But in no way |||||||||||||||::::.. .. . Officially representing ||||||||||||:::::... .. ....ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e spencer@mica.berkeley.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-