Hi...

On 09/30/20 07:17 pm, Alfredo Fernández Díaz wrote:

Hi Gregg,

On 20/09/27 20:33, Gregg Young wrote:

The real solution would be modifying  WinSetDesktopWorkArea in PMMERGE  to
check to see if the desktop was already reduced and return an error  on
any subsequent call except one to restore the desktop to its original
size. Of course this isn't going to happen.

I certainly don't count on it happening, but it sounds like a pretty well
known thing. Hm.

Indeed. It's just another of those well known PMMERGE quirks (I say "quirks"
vs "bugs," as there is little to no chance of ever seeing such things fixed).
Of course, there's the DOT patch, so who knows?

For completeness of your planning I can
probably hide the stupid desktop titlebar.

Yes, that's probably better.

But I like to know what that "big window" is consuming my screen... :-)

[...]
Seriously, how many people are left outside that
lot (besides me ;)?

Probably a lot; OS/2 users aren't exactly a progressive bunch. I know one
that is still using a prehistoric version of lSwitcher;-)

You think that's prehistoric? You should see the WordPerfect macros I'm
writing lately ;p

:-)

Point taken, though (listening to Lewis' input as well -- I used the warp 3
launcher on Warp 4 for ages, hehe).

As OS/2 users, we value our freedom of choice as opposed to whatever the
software publishers *think* is best for us.

The LaunchPad caught on quickly
for many of us, and served us well for some time. Heck, it took me a long time
to switch away from WarpCenter to XCenter.

...
I think Quit just needs to be removed it has no advantage over close and
mostly doesn't work.

It seems to work here for *applications* (not WPS folders). I am not clear
on the (dis)advantages when closing programs, though, but if there are none,
why was it there in the first place?

I think Gregg's point is that Quit doesn't really work any better or worse
than Close. IOW, I've never had a running process refuse to close but was then
able to use Quit. It works, surely, but when it does, Close should also work,
so there's no real advantage to having the extra option.

Having seen r13b, I think I concur with Lewis: I'd prefer a single 'Close'
lSwitcher menu entry for folders in the taskbar (since only that makes
sense), but for programs, and if possible, I'd rather have a 'Close' submenu
with the different methods. I think Dos/Sigkill look a bit daunting, not
being normal words and that, and it would be better if at least
non-tech-savvy people can tell right away they're just modes of closing a task.

Exactly.