#Interface Design
I don't think it would be beyond the ken of most concerned Amiga
programmers to sit down and define a set of functions that a file requester
should have. If it starts doing the wash for you, it's not a file
requester. Yes, I think we could learn alot of from the Mac requesters, or
the NeXT requesters, or whereever anyone wants to look. Given two file
requesters, who would disagree that the simpler one would be more appealing
to the novice? How many complex functions could be added on top that
simple requester, without clutter? What set of shifted keys could make the
requester do complex things? Far too often, the religious discussions about
file requesters circle around someone who has already coded a requester,
and doesn't want to change their code. I don't recall any requester that
was created from the ground up, from text descriptions to IFF pictures and
finally to code. It's too difficult to change user interfaces on the
Amiga, and far too often, that's behind the reticence of programmers.