The Manager 1.5 Feature List

[ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Alexander Siegfried)]

Max Jones writes...

 >Thanks for the post and detailed features list. I was recently reading
 >archived posts from the Manager topic in Genie's A2 Roundtable and a >
 >Seven Hills rep wrote that The Manager 1.5 that is available in Europe
 >is actually the Beta version of The Manager v1.1 that was under
 >development for the U.S. market.

 >The rep claimed that the 1.1 Beta was near completion but had never
 >come up to Seven Hills specifications or quality standards.
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Shall I laugh?! All of Seven Hills' software has bugs. On the other
hand, that doesn't matter - _all_ software has bugs. The statement above
is arrogant and really stinks! (sorry, just had to say that...)

The Manager v1.5 IS more reliable than v1.0. Point. It runs more
stable, runs more applications, has lots of bugs fixed and some
nice new features. Due to the nature of the program, it will always
be possible to crash the The Manager with the (un)proper application.
On the other hand, you can crash every other multi-application
environment on the GS very easily.

Btw, The Manager 1.5 was never released in entire Europe. It was
released in France only. There is no other than the French version.
(Do not expect all Europeans speaking French ;) )


 >A programmer who does some work on other Seven Hills programs recently
 >said it was his understanding that TM 1.1 was 99 percent complete, but
 >a programmer had not been found to complete the work on the final 1
 >percent.

Hm, it seems they have found a programmer who's working on it... :)


 >BTW, one of the most annoying things I found with TM 1.0 is that it is
 >incredibly slow when accessing the standard file dialog. I heard that
 >process was to be speeded up considerably in TM 1.1. I didn't see that
 >upgraded feature on the 1.5 features lists. Is it indeed speeded up, or
 >is it still dreadfully slow? (And I'm working on an accelerated GS!)

Yes, this bug has been fixed in v1.5. (Since this is no _feature_, it
is not mentioned in the list - it belongs to bug fixes.)


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