🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Ariancylch wrote:

> Anyone who has anything resembling enough desktop space to be able to
> easily get to, let alone see, the backdrop clearly isn't using their
> computer properly. The only excuse is if you've a 'hide all windows'

Agreed!

> The Cumana SCSI model is close to being right. The one annoyance I have
> with it is the way you have to get to things like 'verify' and 'free'
> when you start stacking drive-icons. I'd far prefer it if the standard
> list of options was -always- there, but acted on the currently selected
> drive. Having the existing list of drives with a sub-menu would be good
> as well.

I think that Access' approach is about half way there (except I don't 
think that the shared drive icons should be treated like files). I'd like 
to have a single file device icon on the iconbar which opens a window 
showing the various devices (CD ROm, floppy, HDs etc). Opening a menu on 
each brings up the expected drive menu with the normal options.

Even better would be to have a single FS, a la unix, and have each device 
'mounted' to a specific directory. Then a file can be referenced along the
lines of FS::RiscPC.$.floppy.TextFile. However at this point we drift into 
the realms of RISC OS fantasy.

All similarities to Win95's 'My Computer' window are purely coincidental!

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