Re: Testing & A Suggestion :)

[Ivan Jager <ivanjager bigfoot com>]

Alan wrote:
> 
> On 23-Nov-2000 John Summerfield wrote:
> >
> > OS/2 has a templates folder. Templates are like other objects except they
> > have
> > the "template" attribute.
> >
> > Users can open them  customise them, so I could open an "IBM Works" document
> > and set the page size to a4 and margins to my preferences and so on.
> >
> > Subsequently I could create an "IBM Works" document by grabbing the template
> > and dragging it to the desktop or to another folder; the dragging process
> > doesn't move it, it "tears off a copy."
> >
> > Most applications written for OS/2 (and some ported to OS/2) put templates in
> > the folder for all their document types and for some other objects as well -
> > for example, telnetpm because it's convenient to have separate telnet objects
> > for each site one visits regularly, each with its own attribute information
> > such as host, terminal emulation, terminal size.
> 
> This is an awsome idea!  I'd completely forgotten about that from my OS/2 Warp
> days :)  How hard would it be to create a read-only type file/virtual file that
> sits in a "new" menu or folder (editable of course, there is nothing I hate
> more than in windows having to wait for ages when I right click and go to new
> and have to wait for the 10,000 new types to load because every program I have
> installed thinks that I will want to create a new document of it (ie: winzip I
> only ever run when dbl clicking on a .zip file, never when right clicking on a
> file (this is me anyway))).

Another way of making a new file in OS/2 is to right click an existing
one of that type and click on "create another". :)

The thing I miss most is all those properties that could be set for
files. For example I could make a unique icon for a special file, use a
background that I choose for a certain folder, or choose wheather a
directory would be opened as icons, tree view, or detail.

Maybe with the extended attributes patch for Linux that would be easier:
http://acl.bestbits.at/

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Ivan Jager