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Applications / Re: XWP 1.0.17: any availability date ?
« on: November 06, 2024, 08:45:33 am »
Let me offer a generic response to the feature suggestions above. No
These days, I only consider new features that have very broad appeal and require little if any configuration (e.g. "Text Size"). I also shy away from features that don't need to run in the WPS process and could be implemented as standalone utilities. Finally, I avoid grandiose schemes that are likely to deliver more bugs than benefits. Some examples:
* Win keys (Martin): in these days of mobile phones where it all "just works" with almost no configuration required, how many users are still willing to go to the effort to configure stuff like this? My sense is "almost none". As it is, I doubt many people use _any_ of XWP's hotkey features, much less add to or change the existing defaults. If you want to pursue this, why not talk to Styler's maintainer?
* File descriptions and Colored dots (Devid): this was implemented by someone in 1994 and never heard from again. Why? I can see how this might be useful if you had a folder full of documents you needed to organize but in the grand scheme of things (e.g. 'C:\OS2\DLL'), not compelling.
* File Previewer (Devid): this one has broad appeal and should require little configuration, so why not implement it? Because the results would be half-assed at best. OS/2 does not support vector graphics like OSX does, so appropriately-sized thumbnails aren't possible. Further, OS/2 apps aren't designed to render the files they create on-demand, so the viewer would have to implement every supported format itself either directly of through plug-ins. Ugggh!!
* Screen drawing (Martin): what does this have to do with the WPS? Since this is used almost exclusively with screenshots, why not ask the maintainer of Gotcha! about it?
* Windows Shadows on Desktop (Martin): waaaay too DOSish if done like NPS; somewhere between waaaay too difficult and impossible if done "correctly".
* RMB 'Copy/Paste/Cut' (Dariusz): pros: broad appeal - cons: an exception list as long as your arm.
These days, I only consider new features that have very broad appeal and require little if any configuration (e.g. "Text Size"). I also shy away from features that don't need to run in the WPS process and could be implemented as standalone utilities. Finally, I avoid grandiose schemes that are likely to deliver more bugs than benefits. Some examples:
* Win keys (Martin): in these days of mobile phones where it all "just works" with almost no configuration required, how many users are still willing to go to the effort to configure stuff like this? My sense is "almost none". As it is, I doubt many people use _any_ of XWP's hotkey features, much less add to or change the existing defaults. If you want to pursue this, why not talk to Styler's maintainer?
* File descriptions and Colored dots (Devid): this was implemented by someone in 1994 and never heard from again. Why? I can see how this might be useful if you had a folder full of documents you needed to organize but in the grand scheme of things (e.g. 'C:\OS2\DLL'), not compelling.
* File Previewer (Devid): this one has broad appeal and should require little configuration, so why not implement it? Because the results would be half-assed at best. OS/2 does not support vector graphics like OSX does, so appropriately-sized thumbnails aren't possible. Further, OS/2 apps aren't designed to render the files they create on-demand, so the viewer would have to implement every supported format itself either directly of through plug-ins. Ugggh!!
* Screen drawing (Martin): what does this have to do with the WPS? Since this is used almost exclusively with screenshots, why not ask the maintainer of Gotcha! about it?
* Windows Shadows on Desktop (Martin): waaaay too DOSish if done like NPS; somewhere between waaaay too difficult and impossible if done "correctly".
* RMB 'Copy/Paste/Cut' (Dariusz): pros: broad appeal - cons: an exception list as long as your arm.