Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> On Monday 27 November 2006 12:39, James Knott wrote:
>   
>>> Looks like aroung 5+ to 1 against the new so far. The new seems to be
>>> emulating windoz XP, which I think is dismal compared to KDE std or
>>> windoz 98.
>>>  
>>>       
>> If only they'd look to the OS/2 WPS for inspiration.  That's one
>> fantastic desktop!
>>     
>
> Ah, come on you old OS/2 farts just never give up do you... ;-)
>
> I never saw anything in OS/2s menuing system that was any better
> than the traditional Kmenu.
>
>   
There's much more to the OS/2 desktop than the menuing system.  The
extended attributes supported a huge amount (64K bytes) of data about
each item.  It included things like history, key words, comments etc.,
all searchable  Also, the icon on the desktop was part of the file, so
the file couldn't get "lost" if it was moved etc.  One nice thing I
recall, from my Compuserve days, was that when a zipped file was
downloaded, the contents of "file.idz" (IIRC), was automatically
included in the description tab of the icon.  This was a text file that
described the contents of the zipped file.  There's a whole lot more
that I've never seen elsewhere.

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