L. Mark Stone wrote:
On Tuesday, April 26, 2005 03:14 pm, JD. Brown wrote:
If you want to see some interesting stuff in a desktop, take a look OS/2. The desktop has had some features, since 1992, that have yet to appear elsewhere. Very powerful in many ways.
Yes, Good ole' OS/2. I still have the disk sets from years ago and a computer to boot with it. I do like OS/2 and how it did things. Memories..............
Shadows.
The best part of the WorkPlaceShell desktop that I have yet to see anywhere else. Kind of like "live" symlinks or Windows shortcuts. Make a shadow of an object (like a file). Now change the name of the file, or move the file to another directory. The shadow still works. All because the WPS was essentially part of the filesystem.
I would put shadows of current proposals and other client docs on my OS/2 Desktop. We had directory trees that classified clients by their status. When a client's status changed, the folder holding all of their docs would be moved to a different branch. And the shadow still worked. Simply brilliant, and I still miss this feature.
And everything on the desktop, automagically appeared on the "Warp" button The extended attributes, that could contain tokenized REXX code The extremely powerful search, that could find stuff, using an very wide array of search terms And lots, lots more.