I think this bounty is good, even though I would rather like to see further development on the AROS-Installer or better an AROS-Installer that can use the traditional install scripts from AOS3 software.

as Magorium wrote... we discussed it on eab. People do not like heavy replacements like Magellan or Scalos but would use a lightweight replacement with functionality on 3.1. level. Because of that the idea to bring Workbook on a useable level to become a real alternative.

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Although mazze did a splendid job sofar, scalos (on aros) is a bit buggy and unfortunately isn't 100% completed yet.

Thereby the topic says it all ?

workbook is an alternative for the classic workbench, and quite some length was put into it to make it as small as possible so that it could run from a floppy -> try that with scalos

Why not use Scalos?

@GreenNight:
Now you'll have to support Workbook:

1. Workbook is programmed in C;
2. you can run it on all platforms AROS runs on so far: it sits in the System drawer...

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I could not find any infos about Workbook on aminet, I would support a minimalistic Workbench if it:

1. is programmed in C (C++ will be accepted)
2. supports more than just one platform

The last time I tried Workbook (with a recent nightly IIRC), I also found that icons weren't shown until I selected "show all files", and that the "show all files" and "show only icons" menu items ended up both ticked at the same time.

Hi,

Together with Olaf we decided to introduct a few bounties to get more development into AROS 68k. Here is the first proposed one:



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Workbook is AROS 68k minimalisting desktop. Today its usability is quite
limited. This bounty aims at extending the available functions to become a
replacement of Workbench as found in AmigaOS 3.1

Bounty will be completed when these functionalites are available in Workbook:

* Support standard .info files
* Manually position & snapshot icons and windows
* Drag & drop icons to copy/move
* Make new directories
* Delete files & directories
* Rename files & directories
* View/edit file information/tooltypes
* Leave out/put away
* Make Show All Files/Show Only Icons work as per description

This functionality needs to be available in ROM version of Workbook, that is
booting a disk only containing LoadWB command will allow usage of Workbook with
these functionalities.

Additionaly the following functionalities can be added at the descrection of the developer:

* Support for ToolMenu
* List-view mode (view + manage files as in icon mode)

These functionalities are not required to mark bounty as completed.

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If you have suggestions on additional functionalities that could be include in that bounty, please let us know.