On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 13:44:59 +0200 Alfredo Fernández Díaz wrote:

You have a plan for forcing the update of XWP on all systems and
preventing the use of Warp Center which we can't fix and you know
for certain these are the only programs that use this?

I always have a plan. Phase I is getting to know how all of this works
without looking at the code. Thanks for your help ;)

Hi Alfred

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.

We need to remember this is an undocumented call and IBM never intended
for others to use it. As such it was not designed for that possibility.
Just like it wasn't designed to be called with a less than full width
window over the reduced area.

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

I imagine the lack of a WarpCenter object in ArcaOS kind of prevents
its use. If the people at ArcaNoae were really determined to do that
I imagine they could also prevent the SmartCenter class from being
registered in the first place in future versions. That would be an even
safer way to be sure nothing will interfere with what's not even there.
And I imagine those people would want as many customers as possible to
be reasonably updated. 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;-)

Then it's all a matter of documenting things properly (do not do this
and that for such and such reason: just a twist on the current docs) and
wait for reports of the three people in the entire universe who still
see something break up in their systems.

Fortunately they never bother to report anything. Think my breaking of all
the non-English languages in 2.91 and never hearing anything about it.

I'll have a look at that later. I've changed a couple of strings to stay
closer to the current English menu (lSwitcher settings -> Properties,
and help mnemonics).

Am I to read this that I need to change the hotkeys again. Remember the
mnemonics and hotkeys must match.

Yeah, I've written better pieces. Have a look at the screenshot.
'Programs' is a WPS folder: you can make it 'Close' but not 'Quit'.
Maybe the 'Close' menu should be replaced by its first child item, which
is the only one that works in that situation.

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

-Packaging: any particular reason why we keep old English readmes,
i.e.
readme.v*?

I always package the historic readmes on my first release. They can
probably go away now. Thanks

Thank you for all you do ^^

Your welcome. Thanks for your help and translations.