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- From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
- Subject: Re: Multiple Desktops....
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.020531.5312@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
- References: <1992Sep02.212553.55553@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:05:31 GMT
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- cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler) writes:
- : In <BtyvL5.CEJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
- : >
- : > Maybe multiple desktops is a feature! :):) Under HP VUE they have workspaces
- : > and you can configure each one and then switch at will. That is actually
- : > kind of nice. Might not be to bad in OS/2, it avoids cluttering it up to
- : > bad, put one kind of work in one, play in another, etc. and in one click you
- : > have a new desktop ready to do something else(different folders, icons
- : > displayed).
- : >
- : > Todd
- :
- : Actually, it is a feature of the Workplace Shell called a Workarea. Any folder
- : can be a workarea (see the File tab, page one of the Settings). A work area
- : has similar properties to the Desktop, in that any application opened from
- : inside it will re-open when the workarea is opened (as long as it was running
- : when the workarea was closed), and all object other than programs opened from
- : a workarea will be closed when the workarea is closed.
- :
- : This is from memory, but is a pretty powerful feature of OS/2. In fact you
- : can use it to provide some multi-user customizations (Have the desktop just
- : contain the workarea objects for each person, then have the person's workarea
- : contain all the objects they can use.
-
- how would you (conveniently) use it. Can you easily specify a different
- desktop on bootup?
- :
- : --
- : Cliff Nadler (cnadler@vnet.ibm.com)
- : IBM Federal Systems Company - TEAM OS/2
- :
- : Disclaimer: This post represents the views of the poster, not IBM Corporation.
-
-
- jin meng
-