new AmigaOS feature requests

[Valan]

As a simple user I would like changs that effect the way I work.

1. A Load/Save requester that can expand into a full browser so I can move, delete, Search, copy files, etc.

2. Ability to set a window to 'Copy To'(green border?) and another to 'Copy From' (Red border?)so it is more difficult to confuse which is which.

3. Have the scroll bars to be on the edge closest to the centre of the screen.

4. A view that opens the drawer into a propper speadsheet type layout with full viewing and editing abilities.

Thanks
Valan

[Valan]

Hi mdwh2,

GUI components shouldn't change relative positions at all, so that the user doesn't have to hunt around to find them.

Unfortunately at the moment the scroll bars do need to be hunted and found. I would like them accessable at all times. If all windows on the left of the screen had their scroll bars on the right and vice a versa then there would be uniformity and it would be very obvious. If some windows had their scrollbars switched and some had not then, yes, it would be confusing as you suggest. I think that the default setting should be the centre of the Window/Palette. So a window being stretched from right to left would have the scrollbar jump from left to right.

Also, I think scroll bars are getting similiar to door handles, all shapes and sizes even different ways to use them but people figure them out pretty quickly.

OSX has areas that shift side of the main window and this does not confuse the user. This is heralded as a major feature of the email system and works very well.

I should have also added that scroll bars should move to be accessable if they are blocked by other objects.

Valan

[Valan]

Sorry for my ignorance but is Multi-Cast anything like now tv?

Thanks
Valan

[Valan]

Here's some annoyances from Windows2000. I appologise if these are irrelevant to AOS4.

I hope AOS4 will be consistant in the load and save dialogue boxes.

It is frustrating to have to re-navigate to the place where you have last been. Maybe this could be option. Save as... where the file was Opened or Save in the last place visited.

Another is the need to keep the 'View By' option consistant throughout the dialogue boxes. Multiple visits to the Open or Save dialogues should appear the same to the user rather than reverting back each time to the list view.

Rant over, just can't wait to get back to an Amiga OS.

Valan