Re: Other system CDEVs?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article tward@XXXXenteract.com writes...

>Brian Hammack <brian.hammack@rook.wa.com> wrote:
>> Did any third-parties make Control Panel devices that affected the way
>> a system worked?  By this, I mean something along the lines of the ones
>> Apple provided (General, Modem, RAM, Printer, etc.) that tweaked things
>> that Apple didn't give us options on like system font, icon spacing...
> 
>Automenus is pretty neat. It makes menus drop down automatically when the
>cursor is in the menu bar rather than having to click and drag the mouse.
>It does take some getting used to though.

    I found it doesn't get along with hierarchical menus (e.g. Kanagroo,
TransProg III), even if you attempt to click the mouse. In any case, I
would much perfer if you had to click-once and _then_ menus would stay
open, rather than them opening automatically. Something closer to the
way Windows 95 and MacOS 8 function.

    Speaking of Windows 95, another CDev/INIT I would like to see
written is a taskbar for "minimizing" windows. You could add an 
extra button to GS/OS windows (next to the shrink/expand button) 
that would close the window and add it to a listing in the lower
half of the screen. You'd then just click it to reopen the window.
This is something I could see being useful, considering how easily
cluttered the small 640x200 desktop can become.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca