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General Discussion / Re: ArcaOS - OS/2 - GUI Improvements Suggestions Discussion

« on: October 15, 2024, 05:19:28 pm »

Hello

On a different thread Devid suggested something that I think it is interesting as part of the GUI:
"Another feature could be files preview (image, pdf, text, ecc.) with some sort of keyboard shortcut (in OSX is the spacebar key)."

Regards

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Applications / Re: Newb question

« on: October 14, 2024, 05:16:47 am »

Welcome to the forum RamiroElliot

Which version of ArcaOS or OS/2 are you using?
Is the DOS prompt showing something strange that you can not see right? Can you post a picture?

Regards

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Applications / Re: XWP 1.0.17: any availability date ?

« on: October 14, 2024, 03:36:45 am »

Hello Rich

If it is possible to kindly request you a new features for the next XWorkplace. I would like if you can take a look at "Win95key" (some discussion about it here) and also to the XWP ticket #11. Something when the user can define the "Modifier Keys" and play with those to create combinations of keys. It does not has to be as I suggested on the ticket, you may have a different idea.

Just in case in OS/2 we don't use the "Windows Key", we call it the "Warp Key"   

Thanks.

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 Box Collection Wiki - Questions

« on: October 13, 2024, 07:38:49 pm »

Thanks for the pictures.

Those are now on the wiki: https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=IBM_OS/2_2.1_-_UK_English_-_72G2337

Regards

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Setup & Installation / Re: Replacing ArcaOS UEFI Boot Manager with rEFind Boot Manager

« on: October 13, 2024, 07:08:02 pm »

Thanks Dave

On the Lenovo Miix that I'm trying I found that the UEFI BIOS has an options to select which to boot first. I selected ReFind from the list and it is the default now.
I will have to check the others UEFI machines I have.

Another thing, have you tried REFind with Secure Boot enabled on the UEFI BIOS?

Regards

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Setup & Installation / Re: Replacing ArcaOS UEFI Boot Manager with rEFind Boot Manager

« on: October 13, 2024, 06:16:11 pm »

Hello

Just on question here. I had installed Refind from the Windows partition, but did you installed it from ArcaOS or EFI Shell?
How was your procedure?

Regards

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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 Box Collection Wiki - Questions

« on: October 13, 2024, 04:16:03 pm »

Hello Richard

I can't work out how to add multiple photos to the same forum post ...

As far as I know I don't have a limitation on the forum about the number of pictures you can upload. Check the attached picture, since you have to click (more attachments) to include more than one.

I got your email and I loved the pictures. Please send me or post the contents, and hopefully with the Part Numbers too.

I created this Wiki page:
- https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php?title=IBM_OS/2_2.1_-_UK_English_-_72G2337

Can we say this one is UK English?

Regards

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Setup & Installation / Re: Is FixPak 5 for WSeB 4.52 available anywhere?

« on: October 13, 2024, 04:17:05 am »

Hello Richard

I don't remember exactly which fixpacks were available under Software Choice, those were not the IBM ftp. I think it was fp4 and fp5 the ones from Software Choice

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General Discussion / Re: ArcaOS - OS/2 - GUI Improvements Suggestions Discussion

« on: October 12, 2024, 07:26:06 pm »

Hello

- Run commands feature on X Button.

We already have this one. Click the X button and just above Shut down... is Run...

What I understood about this request is, like Win95, is to have a search bar when you can type directly and press enter. Or maybe like Win10, just click the WinButton and start typing to run a command, but in our case with XButton it will break the hotkeys.

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General Discussion / Re: ArcaOS - OS/2 - GUI Improvements Suggestions Discussion

« on: October 12, 2024, 05:51:48 pm »

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.

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General Discussion / Re: ArcaOS - OS/2 - GUI Improvements Suggestions Discussion

« on: October 11, 2024, 07:05:00 pm »

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?

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General Discussion / Re: ArcaOS - OS/2 - GUI Improvements Suggestions Discussion

« on: October 11, 2024, 06:29:38 pm »

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.

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/

Regards

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General Discussion / ArcaOS - OS/2 - GUI Improvements Suggestions Discussion

« on: October 11, 2024, 06:06:36 pm »

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

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Virtualization / Re: VirtualBox: Can't copy files to a shared folder under ArcaOS guest

« on: October 06, 2024, 02:52:57 am »

Hello

We have two VirtualBox Addons, the official ones (7.1.0 ) from the VBox project and VBoxAddtions-os2-x86-5.0.51.r217 from Valery (Netlabs).

I like Valery's version because it has WPS integration (yes, with a lot of warning when you copy a file that seems to come from the WPS). Valery's version has the issues that David and Neil are pointing. Valery's created "vboxfs.ifs" (not to be confused with vboxsf.ifs"

I was hoping to create a ticket on the VirtualBox site requesting the WPS integration and try to take Valery's version for inspiration.
I'm not sure if Valery's the full source code is here: https://trac.netlabs.org/vbox/browser#tags/5.0.51/src

Regards

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General Discussion / Re: EDM/2 Wiki Issue

« on: October 06, 2024, 02:24:45 am »

Hello

Ans now also the os2world.com wiki has problems....

I was updating the OS2World wiki today. It is working now and it is the MediaWiki latest version.

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