Re: [ARMini-support] ARMX6 OS update 7 released
- From: John Harrison <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:42:46 +0100
In article <384ba06c55.rcomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
A Rawnsley <rcomp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... create a disparity between Apps on the iconbar and Apps on the hard
drive. .... defeats the purpose of the "magic" Apps folder.
For the magic Apps folder to work, all Apps have to be at the same level
inside the main Apps folder. There are two problems with that.
One is that not all of them come completely encapsulated, but have various
separate data files, config tools, utilities or maunals with them. To
maintain order it makes sense to put the whole lot into a folder so they
are all together.
The other is that if you accumulate a large number of Apps, especially
small utilities that you use infrequently, it is far easier to hunt for the
tool you need by first selecting a folder (say graphics or sound) and then
hunting through the App titles/icons within it trying to find the most
suitable one.
The following folders should be considered sacresanct really (on any RISC
OS system):
!Boot
Apps
Printing (!Printers normally resides here, and may be !Boot-ed)
Utilities (contents are filer_booted by an ordinary !Boot)
I would not move anything out of !Boot, Printing or Utilities, but I had
never seen Apps in the same light.
We basically follow the same standards, so Sound is present just as it
was historically.
But having programs in Sound (or Video, or Text, etc) alongside the main
Apps folder has the same effect of making them invisible to the 'magic'
Apps folder.
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John Harrison
Website
http://jaharrison.me.uk
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