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gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kenneth McGaugh) writes:

>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 would like to get a whole discussion of things to change or add to OS/2
going...

>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.

I have exactly the same problem.

>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.
>Internet: gt1610c@prism.gatech.edu

I agree that it would be a good feature.  A more general version of that
feature would be that bringing a window into focus doesn't necessarily
bring it to the foreground (like X-windows).

In general, I would really like to see an organized way for users to make
suggestions about OS/2 to IBM and possibly get some sort of IBM feedback
on it (though this is asking alot): basically a "suggestion box".

Now if only there were a suggestion box to send this idea to...

                                             --Ethan Gershon
                                             gershon@husc.harvard.edu