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- From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
- Message-ID: <gershon.715551885@husc10>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 20:24:45 GMT
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >In article <gershon.715476775@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
- >>multiple desktops with and without logins to allow multiple users to
- >>use the same system etc... (kind of like XEROX's "Rooms for Windows")
-
- >OS/2 2.0 already has this feature (without logins). You can set up
- >multiple work areas (desktops).
-
- you're right, but it's not quite the same thing.
-
- >>give out a good "make bootable diskette/disk" program as an applet. I
- >>still haven't entirely figured this out.
-
- >I think the IBM employee written SE20BOOT program that just floated
- >across comp.binaries.os2 might do the trick for you.
-
- I am still playing with this program trying to get it to work.
-
- >>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.
-
- >Already there, really. Click both buttons simultaneously while
- >pointing at the desktop and you get the Window List. Click mouse
- >button two on the desktop and you get the system menu, which you can
- >customize (select Open -> Settings to do so). You can add
- >applications to the bottom of the list, for example.
-
- I tried to do this, and I get some sort of error everytime I use one
- of the applications I started; something about the drive or path not being
- availible, and then the program comes up. what's going on? (I still think
- such a pull down system would be nice)
-
- >>MB2 pop-up menu for marked text like in CUA demo
-
- >Can you elaborate?
-
- in the CUA demo, you mark text, and then click with MB2 on it, and options
- (like search, cut, paste, etc) come up for that block. I realize that this
- could be implemented by an individual program, but it would be nice to
- see as a pervasive thing in the system.
-
- >>a basic collection of icons (including those that are used by the system)
- >>for OS/2 and DOS programs and functions
-
- >Definitely available from BBSes, ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (via anonymous ftp),
- >and the like, but I see your point. It comes down to a question of
- >whether the disk space is worth it.
-
- I think a small collection, as well as .ico files of the icons the system
- uses (or are these there and I simply missed them?) would be nice. .ico
- files tend to be short...
-
-
- I had another earlier today, but now I can't remember what it was.
-
- --Ethan Gershon
- gershon@husc.harvard.edu
-