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- Subject: Re: Shortcut Manager
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 13:57:58 +0200 (MDT)
- In-Reply-To: <C2FBA41920@edi.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> from "Rainer Riedl" at Jun 1, 94 04:16:05 pm
- From: Annius.Groenink@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink)
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- > > You've got yours on a floppy disk, insert it. Open Shortcuts in the
- > > Desk menu. Load your configuration. And all applications will use your
- > > codes.
-
- > Always carrying a disk with me?
-
- OK, we'll make it a chip card :-). Yeah sure, always carrying a disk
- with you, just like your ID. I always have disks with me; don't know
- about you?
-
-
- > > That's why I suggested a wind_get or cookie call instead of the fishy
- > > resource editing stuff: you can make changes globally. Now if you add
- > > some kind of separation between types of application (editor, word, graphics,
- > > compiler) then all applications should be happy as well).
- >
- > Not all Atarians are 'Power User'. Don't forget about those (poor), who
- > working with a floppy disk and 1MB RAM.
-
- :-) To be perfectly honest, the stubborn who are still working
- with THAT I don't give a single damn about. Sorry. Oops,
- please forget I said this...
-
- > All programms should be work with
- > these machines too. An advantage of TOS is the easy use. 'Power User' like
- > we are, certenly will like this features, but I know a lot of users, that
- > are happy, that they can 'doubleclick and work' and don't have to do a lot of
- > setups like for example in Windows.
-
- There's a point in what you're saying here, but then: as the discussion
- is going today it seems that we prefer a kind of file KEYBIND.INF in the
- root directory of C:\ (or A:\) and read that on a per-application basis.
- In that case there are two solutions for disk-based people:
-
- 1. Don't include the file and live happily with the Ofir shortcuts
- 2. Include the file and put in the root of your floppy disk
-
-
- Only the EDITING of that ASCII file, just like the editing of ASSIGN.SYS
- would definitely profit from a dedicated GEM-based editor.
-
- One mistake we must not make is to make the file definition case sensitive,
- like the X resource files.
-
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