M.Davis, 257 Eversholt St, Camden, London, N.W.1.-1.B.A.       0956-634-167
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	Problems with Thing 1.09 / Ideas for next version.
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Problems.
	First, the left mouse button does not work properly when on the
desktop, more specifically, when clicking on windows ( to top ), or on the
close box, or scrolling ( either clicking in the scroll bar or on the
arrows ), sometimes it works fine, sometimes it takes several clicks before
it works.  I ran v0.59 again, no problems, it also works fine with
Teradesk v1.4.  As I said, I recently got Magic 5/Magxdesk and there's no
problem there, except I prefer to use Thing.

	Second, at the moment under Magic, when at the desktop ( Thing )
with no other progs running I have about 2500k free.  Replacing Thing with
Magxdesk gives me 3100k free, a saving of 600k, it would be great if Thing
could be improved to take less Ram.  Of course Thing unloads itself under
single TOS, but I could really do with more free Ram under Magic.


The Ideas.
	..include "eject medium" in file menu, ( ala Magxdesk ).
	..only load assigned icons, ( ala Magxdesk ).
	..make Thing take less memory, ( ala Magxdesk ).
*	..allow up to 32 extensions to be entered in "will open"
						 in "install applications".
*	..biuld in a fully configurable "LEDPANEL" clone.
*	..biuld in a "CHICFONT" clone.
	..ability to configure centre mouse button.

*	32 ext
	I've had to install "St-guide", "Everest", and "Print" twice each
because of the lmitation on the number of file extensions you can use to
call an application.  If it were raised to 32 I'd only need to install them
once.  At the moment I use 16 extenders to call these programs ( 17 for
St-guide ) and the number may well increase so I'll have to install them
three times.  It is neccersary to do this so I get the option to view /
edit / print any asc file I double click on.

*	LEDPANEL
	is a P.D. utility which is probably the best clock display there
is, at the far right of the menu bar, it displays, in white on black or
black on white, the time, or pressing "alternate" the date, a "caps lock"
icon, and two rows of LED's, one LED in each row for each partiton, showing
which partition is being read or written to.  I'm sure something similar
could be written in to Thing and probably take less Ram.

*	CHICFONT
	is a tiny ( less than 5k ) P.D. utility which changes the system
font to "Chicago", which gives such an improvement to the desktop that I
never use high res without it.  Unfortunately it only works in high
resolution, but I'm sure Things programmers could write it into the next
version so it works in medium res.  It's a lot easier than using an
aditional font selecter program and takes a less Ram.  I've experimented
with different fonts in the desktop but this is the best looking font I've
found, and in such a small bit of code, it's a must.