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Mik Davis (davism@uhura.aston.ac.uk) wrote:
>   hum, editing filenames isn't very 'RiscOS-like' and could incurr the wrath
> of Apple ltd.

(Following is based on my experience from Arthur days to present RISC OS
2 days on Acorn Archimedes "A340M")

I second ! A name is associated with a file and to get in renaming mode
when try to drag from name is really annoying. How about a
"rename/save/move  as" window when single-clicking file shift press
(analoguous to shift drag).

A major lacking point in addition of tree view in Acorn filer is that it
doesn't keep track of the size of selected files and it does not allow
selection in multiple directories. Also very annoying is when you click
menu over one filer window when you have one file selected in other window and
get it used in info (not really an contradiction in previous sentence).

One problematic point in RISC OS interface is the way it use adjust drag
or click.  In one place it means keep menu/window showing, in other
context it means "make directory disapear after double click"! So mayby
it would be appropriate to stress in documation this two adjusts: the
drag/click one and double click one.  But the adjust drag copy with
adjust is the inconsistent one, that mayby we must live with!

Hint of week: if you want to make a filer window with only bottom corner
showing and do not use a back drop program, then you can rid of it by
adjust draging a file on background!

>   Space conversion would be nice, I agree but what would the filer do on

No, no, no !!! If you want space use alt-space. I'd very much like if
names with alt-space would also be shown in double quotationmarks
outside desktop (like in systemvariables etc)

Is there BTW still problems with paths with pseudo-filesystems in them
and are IconSprites, Obey etc now all multitasking? Are macroes finally
truly working?

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