Felix Miata said the following on 04/08/2012 04:10 PM:
On 2012/04/08 13:20 (GMT-0400) James Knott composed:
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. (a major reason I still use OS/2) XFile (shareware, not the native file picker, more than a decade old) features:
Remembers window size (across sessions)
That's a function of the Window Manager, not the application, and yes KDE does that. In fact you can 'lock' attributes of classes of windows.
Remembers window position
As above.
Fast (cf. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283366)
How fast things are under KDE/Gnome or anything else depends on many things, not the least of which is 'eye-candy'. I find turning things off (ala LXDE) and making everything 'snappy' annoying.
Current DIR File list of current DIR Configurable favorite locations
All there in Konqueror/Dolphin. Oh, and in KDE you can define what directory an app will start in.
View with
Ditto
Open in file manager
Ditto
Most recent files (must have; one click open) Most recent dirs (must have; one click select)
Fuzzy concept there; most recent for what? Most recent that you've moved/copied to? Konq/Dol have both "back" (as in previous, stack) that applies to each tab AND "up" (work you way back up the directory tree) that applies to each tab. That strikes me as 'more general' and more useful. I also use "F9" to get a sidebar of directories, which is also configurable. Again, more general and more useful. And I can define 'vertical tabs' on the sidebar to give new starting points for lists of directories.
When supported by app opened from, opens in last DIR used by that app (must have)
That's a function of the app; a sensible, well coded app will also have 'previously opened files'. There's nothing here we can't find in KDE. Maybe its that you don't use or haven't explored, haven't experimented with KDE. I'm sire OS/2 was great in its time, but then compared to old CLIs, the Bourne shell of 1980 was a great leap forward since it supported a proper programming language and implemented P J Brown's ideas about 'throw-away compiling' in interpreters. But time moves on and we had the Korn Shell and now Bash, and they incorporated ideas from the C-shell and more. There is an evolution of sorts in action. Yes the good ideas are spoken of and in this open source world someone will implement then. If it catches on, great, if not then perhaps it wasn't that desirable. Obviously those ideas from OS/2 had some value, but the developers found that putting them in the desktop manager rather than the file manager made more sense. If you're not aware of these functions and capabilities, ones that people such as myself who are more committed to KDE4 are well aware of, then please don't tell us that KDE doesn't have them. And yes I don't know Gnome; I gave up on it a long time ago. -- There are two rules for success in life: Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org