[Coco] Re: Coco Digest, Vol 10, Issue 47

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I'm pretty sure Rick Ulland's GUI used some of the MV files and could use MV icons. Maybe a copy will surface somewhere soon??? I don't have any CoCo stuff left, I'm mostly just listening in here and reminescing a bit!! 


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> Message: 4 

> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:58:54 -0600 

> From: Frederick D Provoncha 

> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo GUI 

> To: coco at maltedmedia.com 

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> I should probably throw my 2 cents in on this topic: 

> 

> I actually like Multi-Vue. The only problem I see is that it needs more 

> features. If we use Gshell 1.26 as a starting point, and add more 

> features to it, I think it could be all that I would ever want in a Coco 

> OS-9 GUI. At the very least, any new GUI should try to be compatible with 

> Multi-vue (i.e. use .aif files and Multi-Vue icons and use the env.file 

> in the SYS directory) 

> 

> What I'd like to see added is the ability to customize the content of the 

> pull-down menus by adding more commands. I think that it should be 

> possible to add quite a few additional OS commands to the pull-down 

> menus. 

> 

> Fred Provoncha