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- From: gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Opinions Please -- WPS "feature"
- Message-ID: <gershon.728026826@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 05:40:26 GMT
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- gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kenneth McGaugh) writes:
-
- >There is one aspect of the WPS that I really feel is
- >counter productive. I would like to hear some opinions
- >from others in the net about this idea.
-
- I would like to get a whole discussion of things to change or add to OS/2
- going...
-
- >I feel that when an icon is selected with mouse button 2
- >with the intent of dragging it (moving, copying, shadowing,
- >or drag-n-dropping), the folder which contains that object
- >should NOT become the foreground window. I has become very
- >frustrating to find the object you are looking for, and when
- >you go to drag it to another folder, its folder comes to the
- >foreground and covers up the intended destination for your
- >object.
-
- I have exactly the same problem.
-
- >If I remember correctly, the 6.304 beta of OS/2 2.0 last
- >spring had this exact feature in it. I do not know how much
- >code would have to be rewritten to change this, but I would
- >like to pursue this matter with IBM. Does anyone know who or
- >where to contact about such a feature change? I doubt they
- >will take it as a bug report.
-
- >Ken.
- >Internet: gt1610c@prism.gatech.edu
-
- I agree that it would be a good feature. A more general version of that
- feature would be that bringing a window into focus doesn't necessarily
- bring it to the foreground (like X-windows).
-
- In general, I would really like to see an organized way for users to make
- suggestions about OS/2 to IBM and possibly get some sort of IBM feedback
- on it (though this is asking alot): basically a "suggestion box".
-
- Now if only there were a suggestion box to send this idea to...
-
- --Ethan Gershon
- gershon@husc.harvard.edu
-