Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [01-01-70 12:34]:
> On Sunday, April 08, 2012 23:35:30 C wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 22:10, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > > e.g. (a major reason I still use OS/2)
>
> -----snip-----
>
> > > Remembers window position
> >
> > Not default, but...right click on the Dolphin window tile bar. Select
> > Advanced > Special Window Settings > Size & Position.  Place checks
> > in the Position and Size check boxes, and set their option to
> > Remember (ignore the numbers in the text boxes to the right). Click
> > OK. Position Dolphin where you want it to open... close it and open
> > it again... shazam, it remembers Window position.
>
> The above seems to mean that one has to position the position of the 
> Dolphin window (or any other window, presumably), and then lock it into 
> that position for the future. This is not the OS/2 behavior; in OS/2 one 
> has only to place a window in its desired position, period. There is not 
> need to trickle down through a rather long menu tree, and manipulate 
> check boxes to set a position to be remembered for each window 

Point is one has to ability to *choose* which manner is presented, but
*you* still have the ability to position the window as you choose/expect
w/o use os/2.  I, too, used os/2 from the early beta until IBS stepped on
it's xyzj, and I left os/2 as I left kde3, kde2/ and early versions of
windoz.

There are a few, very few, things I like the way windoz does them but I
will not .....!
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