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Article #74Re: what are you doing with OS/2???
From: Todd Ogasawara
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 05:28
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1989 05:28
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In article <1338@dialog.UUCP> root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz) writes:
]In article <1645@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian A. Onn) writes:
]>Hmm. I'll have to wait and see if I'll like this or not. I liked being
]>able to click on the Task Manager Icon and switching to any task, without
]>touching the keyboard. How do you pop it up now?
]
]Simply double-click any place on the desktop not covered by a window. The
]"Task List" will pop up right where you clicked. I think this is one of
]the neatest features of 1.2 ...
I think this sounds non-intuitive (not counter-intuitive, mind you, just
non-intuitive). One of my pet peeves about X-Windows was the non-intuitive
use of mouse driven commands. I hope OS/2 doesn't cause me that problem
too.
--
Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!uhccux!todd From: todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2 Subject: Re: what are you doing with OS/2??? Message-ID: <5209@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 24 Oct 89 05:28:33 GMT References: <5154@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <1989Oct19.143604.21001@rpi.edu> <13220@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <1645@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> <1338@dialog.UUCP> Reply-To: todd@uhccux.UUCP (Todd Ogasawara) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 19