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| Time: 08:59 EST/13:59 GMT | News Source: ZDNet UK | Posted By: Bill Roach | ||
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With the launch of XP now a distant memory and Longhorn playing peek-a-boo from the far future, it's time to think about what we'd like to see in the next generation of desktop operating systems. If you listen to the marketing corps, you'll be told what you want: all sorts of tighter integration, .Net synergies, authentication and replication, XML smarts. But most of the things I'd like to see in Windows are plain and simple, wouldn't require phalanxes of PhDs to implement, and would make my daily life so much nicer. | ||
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| #1 By 6859 (206.156.242.36) at 3/26/2003 9:25:41 AM |
| One thing I want, and it's something I've always wanted, is that if I open a window, run a program, or something along those lines and then immediately go on to something else while that is opening I do not want the focus to shift to the window or program that is opening, but rather to stay exactly where it is (i.e.: what I'm doing at the moment.) It's frustrating, knowing that I might as well just wait for it to finish loading then move on, than to really get it to do more than one thing at a time and keep the focus on where I am at the moment. |
| #2 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 3/26/2003 12:46:25 PM |
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Cthulhu, the TweakUI powertoy allows you to keep the focus on whatever window the mouse pointer is over, if that is what you want.
Nacer, you want to point out more than anecdotal evidence that Linux handles multitasking better than Windows? 30 programs opened on 128 MB of RAM doesn't sound very impressive to me. |
| #3 By 1643 (131.107.3.84) at 3/26/2003 3:46:39 PM |
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<Troll>
It goes to point out that 99.99% of the time the tools are out there for us Windows geeks to do anything we want with the OS...but the linux geeks just don't know how to operate windows properly. </Troll> |
| #4 By 2459 (24.170.151.19) at 3/26/2003 3:48:05 PM |
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Does the company really think that programmers gather in bars and ask themselves how on earth Microsoft produces such fantastic software?
Yes, it's called the Linux community. |
| #5 By 1845 (12.209.152.69) at 3/26/2003 4:20:13 PM |
| I don't drink, but I gather in restaurants, in the office with pizza, or in ice cream parlors and talk about such things. :-) |
| #6 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 3/26/2003 4:29:55 PM |
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Cthulhu - Hmm... That's pretty much the behavior of Windows 2000 and XP. I know what you're talking about as it used to annoy me a lot with NT and 95.
Now the focus thing that XMouse does is it gives keyboard focus to whatever window your mouse is over. That may not be what you want, as the window does not necessarily raise to the front or stay to the front. |
| #7 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 3/26/2003 8:59:55 PM |
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When I was doing stuff with VMS I only had a 1 Meg quota, so I can guarantee you that you noticed it having an effect on diskspace. But it was sometimes nice. :)
As for sound per application. You can do this in a way, because you can usually pick which sounds to play. Well you can modify the .wav files to play such that they are not as loud. But yes, I agree it'd be nice to have a setting within the app to do that for you. |
| #8 By 135 (208.50.204.91) at 3/27/2003 10:48:30 AM |
| nacer - bluvg asked for something other than anecdotal evidence. |
| #9 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 3/28/2003 11:20:01 AM |
| Very funny. I don't see anything impressive in that screenshot at all. |
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