I'd second that. The ability to directly access the menu commands of virtually any program from the shell in AmigaOS was a brilliant idea. I love the idea of a *nix/Amiga crossbreed OS. I'd also love to see an OS with a slightly more advanced permissions model with the ability for an element or folder to always inherit certain permissions from the folder it was currently contained within and/or the ability to set/change the defaults for a folder to determine what happens when a new file is created. Correctly implemented this would make the job of setting permissions less time consuming.
Timothy Lee Rayner -----Original Message----- From: peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Andy Taylor Sent: 10 July 2009 14:37 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Desktop GUI Who needs a GUI when you have a shell! Seriously, an interface that's a cross of mac os and amiga workbench would be great. Andy On 10 Jul 2009, at 11:29, Phil Thompson <p...@yarwell.demon.co.uk> wrote: Talk of Google's open source operating system got me thinking about the desktop and menu design etc. I have heard people say that the Linux desktop experience is lacking in some regard, at the same time the MS Windows approach to menus etc and things like having to use the Start button to shutdown the computer are not exactly intuitive. What do you folks see as needing improvement in current Linux desktop software or what would you do different to Windows if you had the luxury of starting again ? Phil _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
