new AmigaOS feature requests

[mdwh2]

mikeymike wrote:
I've never suggested AmigaOS is bug-free or at the peak of the OS development pinnacle, ever.  However that does not mean everything should be done on it just like how it's done on Windows.

I don't use Windows Update.

Also, I don't want to have to leave my machine dialled up for hours on end to download half a million patches, every time I reinstall my machine.

How should it be done then?

Note, you don't *have* to have Windows Update being done automatically. I only use it when I want to, and I pick which updates I want.

The advantage is that there is a centralised place to go to to update OS components, and you can hand-pick things, and get them as soon as they are available, without having to wait until an entire update/service-pack/'boing-bag' is released.

[mdwh2]

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

If you mean that they should dynamically change position, this seems a confusing and bad idea to me. In general, GUI components shouldn't change relative positions at all, so that the user doesn't have to hunt around to find them.

If you are thinking of cases where the window is partially off-screen (not that AmigaOS can even do this currently..) then I would suggest that scrollbars should switch to the left side of the window only in the case where they would be off the right edge of the screen.

[mdwh2]

Oli_hd wrote:
The Amiga's OS doesnt get enough updates to make use of that and driver updates dont come out that often either.. how often have you needed to upgrade a driver?

You rarely *have* to upgrade (though I rarely have to on Windows). But it's still nice to upgrade to get better features - the problem on the Amiga is that I have no idea if or when upgrades are available.

Part of the problem is that there are a lot more libraries on the Amiga that are fairly fundamental parts of the system, but are 3rd parties (eg, MUI - I remember having to hunt around for ages trying to find the latest version of some MUI custom classes), but hopefully this will be less of an issue in future.

Now one to check for program updates, maybe, although definatly not the way Microsoft Update works. (Security hole, I have the post from ann.lu that gives you the link to delete specific files or all files from a harddrive using Windows update)

Well, I think it goes without saying that we don't want to duplicate any bugs or security holes But what otherwise is wrong with the way it works? How should it work instead?