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Opinions Please -- WPS "feature"

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From: Michael Kenneth McGaugh
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:50
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Hey all.

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 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.

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.
-- 
M. Ken McGaugh
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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From: gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kenneth McGaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Opinions Please -- WPS "feature"
Summary: WPS
Message-ID: <81678@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:50:23 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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