On Sunday, 17 June 2018 20:47:36 ACST James Knott wrote:
On 06/16/2018 01:11 AM, Rodney Baker wrote:
The hardest thing for me, moving from OS/2 to Linux, was missing the "Workplace Shell" desktop environment. That had some really cool features that no Linux distro has ever matched. I ran OS/2 from version 2.0 right through to the last days of Warp 4, before it became eComStation (which is still available, btw, but not exactly cheap).
That WPS really was something and hasn't been duplicated elsewhere. Real loss. I started with OS/2 2.0, when it was first released, and continued using it until after I left IBM in 2000. I then gradually moved to Linux.
One really great thing about the WPA was the extended attributes, which could contain up to 64 KB of metadata about a file. Also, REXX scripts could run directly from the extended attributes, if they could fit in that 64 K. This provided much better performance than interpreting the script every time it was run. You could also do so much searching within that metadata.
Yes, and the workspace folders were great, too (I think that was what they were called); you could place a set of documents inside them, open up the folder and the documents would all open in their respective apps in the state in which you last left them. Close the folder and the current state was saved and all associated apps were closed automatically. Brilliant! Windows 10 is just adding something similar, but I really wish KDE/Plasma had something like that! Any openSuSE Devs like to try implementing something similar? -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au CCNA #CSCO12880208 ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org