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Article #17363Re: OS/2 Wishlist (additions)
From: Leonard D Woren
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 03:55
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 03:55
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In article <56UKBSII@math.fu-berlin.de> oheiabbd@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de writes: >[description of installing new windoze program and invoking the >migration dialog] >If I then choose search for windows-apps, I get back all >the programms already installed plus my new one. > >At that place I want to be able to deselect all marked >programms and then select the new one. Easy. CTL-backslash to de-select all, then select the one you want. CTL-\ works anyplace that supports selecting multiple items. (CTL-/ selects all.) On the other hand, it sure would be nice to be able to "migrate" one new application without having to wait for OS/2 to search thousands of files on my HD to build a list which I'm not going to use anyway. Isn't this what you _really_ want? >What I actually have to do is to deselect all those >programms (and there a lot) one by one leaving the one >I want to install as wps-object selected. >That is a waste of time. This just emphasizes a common complaint about OS/2 which IBM could address without changing any code: in addition to the semi-random splattering of these shortcut key combinations throughout the documentation, how about an appendix or something which lists *all* of them in a single place? How many times have we seen questions about bypassing program auto start at boot, or rebuilding INI and config at boot, etc?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,54b5a7eb8f6e0e7a X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,54b5a7eb8f6e0e7a X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca75,54b5a7eb8f6e0e7a X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca75,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-01-25 07:51:17 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!usc!not-for-mail From: ldw@skat.usc.edu (Leonard D Woren) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.beta,bit.listserv.os2-l Subject: Re: OS/2 Wishlist (additions) Date: 24 Jan 1994 19:55:54 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 30 Sender: ldw@skat.usc.edu Message-ID: <2i258a$abb@skat.usc.edu> References: <bjorn.757443367@box.ludd.luth.se> <2g72r7$3ng@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <56UKBSII@math.fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu