On Sunday, 08 April 2012 13:21 C wrote:
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 19:39, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
Actually, all desktop designers should take a hard look at the OS/2 Workplace shell. It included a lot of nice features that I haven't seen elsewhere.
e.g.
Browser window in background has a page with an URL I want to copy & paste into window that has focus. Anywhere else, I have to: 1-focus the browser window 2-copy the link 3-refocus the target window 4-paste
In OS/2: 1-right click the browser link 2-click copy 3-shift-INS 4-<enter>
The difference is OS/2 typically requires a whole lot less mouse movement and screen redrawing to do the same task.
Ummm OK... I just now tested your "In OS/2" example in KDE4 (using default mouse focus settings) with LibreOffice and Chromium. The application with focus was LibreOffice, and Chromium was in the background, but the contents were visible. I followed your *exact* steps you outlined for for OS/2 and.. it worked exactly the same in KDE4. I did *not* have to to the first sequence of steps to achieve the copy/paste in this example. So...
C.
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