Interface Design
27-Mar-89 20:10:55
Sb: #40811-Interface Design
Fm: Steve Tibbett 72627,1325
To: Richard Bielak 75716,352
I agree.
I think if we really want to push the Amiga to the business world, we
should stop thinking Innovation and Creativity (not in general, but just in
those applications), and start thinking simplicity, speed, and power.
The PC shows you a list of files and makes you pick one. Nobody says
anything about file requesters on the PC… Windows has a standard one and
everybody uses it. Same with OS/2. Same with Gem.
I think a file requester SHOULD be part of the operating system, and should
not be different for each application. The idea of being able to "plug in"
your favourite is not necessarily a good idea – because chances are every
second developer will make his own "favourite" file requester, and plug IT
into the user's boot disk.
And I personally think the ARP 1.3 file requester is very good. I hope it
does end up in ROM.