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ArcaOS - OS/2 - GUI Improvements Suggestions Discussion
Martin Iturbide:
Hello
At the Warpstock round table discussion, there was a little moment to talk about there should be some GUI improvements for ArcaOS, and I think it is good to write the down somewhere and discuss it on the open.
The question is, based in your experience with different OS GUIs, what do you think it could be interesting to have in ArcaOS ?
My ideas/suggestions will come in a while.
Regards
Martin Iturbide:
Hello
One thing that is used now in several OSes is the feature to resize windows in the desktop by dragging those to one side of the screen or even the top. I call it "WarpSnap" just for fun and I posted it as a request on lSwitcher, but maybe it should be more related to XWorkplace intead. I guess, since the screen size went to 16:9 it turn into a desirable feature on every OS's GUI.
--- Quote --- The idea of this functionality is to enable that for OS/2 windows on PM you can drag the window to the “left-edge”, “right-edge” or “top” of the screen and the window will resize:
“left edge”, the window will resize and maximize to convert the left side of the screen (from the center to the left).
“right edge”, the window will resize and maximize to convert the right side of the screen (from the center to the left).
“top” , the window will resize and maximize on the screen like the normal “maximize window”
This functionality is similar to the one indicated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y2YG8xydGk
FYI:
Here it is how Windows does it:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/snap-your-windows-885a9b1e-a983-a3b1-16cd-c531795e6241
Linux has WinTile
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1723/wintile-windows-10-window-tiling-for-gnome/
MacOS has it too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OPA1Xg4CXg
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/sak82f/macos_has_builtin_window_snapping_just_hold_option/
--- End quote ---
Regards
Martin Iturbide:
The other people's favorite is "X-it"
Even that I haven't poll all the people that uses it, it looks to me that having more icons to navigate between windows is the favorite feature of it.
Long time ago I contacted Michael Shillingford (the author) about his software and he told me he lost the source code. It will be desirable to have some kind of re-implementation of it. Possible with icons that blends (looks more like) ArcaOS, and maybe taking it further and even being able to manage the OS/2 default window icons and supporting different styles of icons... maybe.
Any other things you love about X-it? the clock?
MPJ:
There has been a discussion about it before:
https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php/topic,3518.msg42363.html#msg42363
I would like a toolbar in windows and a kind of start menu for the X button
Martin Iturbide:
Thanks MPJ for the reminder.
Just to try to summarize the GUI ideas.
- Windows snap feature (WarpSnap)
- Customize windows icons (X-It reconstruction)
- Run commands feature on X Button.
- A navigator bar for windows (Object Desktop), navigation buttons and an "address bar" that shows the path.
- Font rendering improvement.
- GUI Copy Files. Combine folder contents or replace directory request (Currently only replace directory is available).
- GUI Copy several Files. A "overwrite all files" option while copying files.
Regards
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