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- Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
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- From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
- Date: 2 Sep 92 23:32:55 GMT
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- great list! two other suggestions I have made previously:
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- multiple desktops with and without logins to allow multiple users to
- use the same system etc... (kind of like XEROX's "Rooms for Windows")
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- ability to change the basic appearance of windows: e.g. move where scroll
- bars and scroll buttons appear. add buttons, remove buttons, move minimize
- buttons. add a close button (instead of double-clicking on upper left button)
- and a bigger resize area like on the mac's lower right corner of windows.
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- also:
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- give out a good "make bootable diskette/disk" program as an applet. I
- still haven't entirely figured this out.
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- include an optional pull down menu system for the desktop (like toolchest
- for X or (I think) rocket launcher for the Mac) that allows you to pull
- down a list of applications or other functions and execute a selection from
- them.
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- MB2 pop-up menu for marked text like in CUA demo
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- a printer driver for fax boards that allows drag-and-drop of a document
- for faxing, etc.
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- definately use standard dialogs throughout (this is part of what makes
- the mac so good)
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- 5.25" disk drives should have 5.25" disks as icons (NOT 3.5" ones)
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- a basic collection of icons (including those that are used by the system)
- for OS/2 and DOS programs and functions
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- icon converter for Win->OS/2 included with system
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- a few "pre-fab" desktop arrangements (including placement of icons) as
- suggestions to people
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- a mac-like trashcan
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- an X-like option for using a third mouse button for pasting marked text
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- X-like versions of windowed DOS and OS/2 prompts with long scroll back
- buffer (instead of just one screen worth of information).
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- a "push window" and "pop window" (like on some X systems) that moves a
- window to the bottom and top of a stack of windows respectively
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-
-
- ok.... that's all I can think of for now. IBM, are you listening????!?
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- comments? opinions? flames?
- --Ethan Gershon
- gershon@husc.harvard.edu
- egershon@helix.nih.gov
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