Quote from: danielnez1 on 2012.08.15, 00:28:26Quote from: miturbide on 2012.08.15, 00:10:29
The OS/2 distinctive technology is the WPS constructed over SOM
I like the the idea of the Voyager project, but it's a shame it never seemed to really take off. However I would argue that there is more to the OS/2 user experience than just WPS and SOM, it also includes things like backwards computability and little things like drive letters etc.
I agree with your earlier point about Linux, while its "Good Enough" for a lot of things, I personally find its directory structure and general OS paradigm a mess. While OS X is BSD based, it gives generally good level of abstraction to "shield" the end user from what lies beneath.
In that, WPS is something that would excel in making it more abstracted. As it is, WPS doesn't really need letters - or can assign them.
And still in this area, WPS and HPFS (and JFS) excel:
- no issues with path\path\path\filename>254 like Windows still has.
(each portion of the entry can be the full length on OS/2 without various complaints or problems moving things - every time I perform a backup for a customer, I run into issues since their folder is named "G:\Customer Backups\YYYY-MM-DD - Customer Name" - and often, once Explorer touches things, it mangles them. When I moved my music collection onto my Windows laptop (from OS/2), it truncated names that were deep in sub-folders) - no issues/complaints about making a directory named ".MyDirectory"
seem like a silly problem? Here's a tip... let's say you have a folder full of resources containing a lot of sub-folders for each, BUT, there are ones you use frequently that you'd like to be able to find quickly. Put a period in front of them (and sort by name). You'll get something like this (the equivalent of TWO (or three - see the end of the example) sorted lists):
.Common Objects
.Shared Images
.Shared Code
Analytics Data
Project 01
Project 02
Project 10
_Archives
_Backup Files
Note: I have ".A-.Z", "A-Z", "_A-_Z" - three sets of alphabetical sorting (of course, numbers fit in there too - but for simplicity sake, I simply represent the sorting as "A-Z").
Anyway, I always have to use a separate program to add a leading period to a folder or file name in Windows (Windows Explorer refuses to allow it).
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