That's a matter of preference, I guess

were not WPS problems, but were PM problems, but after the divorce IBM wasn't putting any resources into that as the benefits would flow to MSFT.

That said, did you ever try the WPS with XWorkplace? The extensions it made to the WPS revealed very clearly the potential of the shell, even more so when one considers that it was coded on a part-time basis by a guy who was also going to law school at the time.

Finally, as a desktop-metaphor type of shell, gnome is not very good at it. There are some basics that it gets right, but overall it's not really that good. For example, as I said earlier, its disk-management tool sucks.

The real benefit is more because of X than Gnome, which is programs that I generally use on warp do a better job because of X's greater capabilities, esp. in the font department.

Post #293,070 by admin 9/17/07 5:32:32 PM Reply	That's a matter of preference, I guess I used WPS pretty extensively for a number of years, and in my opinion it's cack. :-) YMMV, and obviously does, however. Of course, I use Gnome as a place to hang widgets and a means of popping up a window I can type "firefox" or "emacs" into, so my use is hardly typical. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #293,071 by jake123 9/17/07 6:17:22 PM Reply	Well, a lot of the problems people had with it were not WPS problems, but were PM problems, but after the divorce IBM wasn't putting any resources into that as the benefits would flow to MSFT. That said, did you ever try the WPS with XWorkplace? The extensions it made to the WPS revealed very clearly the potential of the shell, even more so when one considers that it was coded on a part-time basis by a guy who was also going to law school at the time. Finally, as a desktop-metaphor type of shell, gnome is not very good at it. There are some basics that it gets right, but overall it's not really that good. For example, as I said earlier, its disk-management tool sucks. The real benefit is more because of X than Gnome, which is programs that I generally use on warp do a better job because of X's greater capabilities, esp. in the font department.
Post #293,087 by Another Scott 9/17/07 10:59:42 PM Reply	Richard Hodges had a dream. [link\|http://www.rusbasan.com/Humor/OS2_Dream.html\|OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell Dream]. :-) Cheers, Scott. (Who was also a WPS fan.)

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