Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:
So just to compare, how much can you do on a vanilla OS/2 Warp system if you’re not a developer? Not a whole lot, but you can still get quite far. You might need to learn a thing or two about CONFIG.SYS in the process tho (see https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/OS/2_Warp_4:_New_Workplace_Shell)
Oh, and you can change every single icon in the system (but I don’t feel like it)
ThatOneCalculator :calcdumpy: :calckey:
@xerz@fedi.xerz.one let's see firefox!
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wow that was easy, just tell it where the network card is (IRQ included) and that I have DHCP
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aaaaaaand it worked! :blobcatchristmasglowsticks:
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YES THANK YOU
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If I were doing this with physical hardware in the 90s I would be having soooooooooo much of a not goodgood time
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…still cannot create a volume…
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once again tho, the volume information is broken, and this is expected
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all I can do is 1008 MB, still more than the 500 I started with tbh
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I thought I wouldn’t exceed 1023 cylinders but uh, apparently I did…
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wait that popup didn’t appear before???????
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so uh
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and by “LVM” I mean the OS/2 one which is not the Linux one http://www.altsan.org/os2/toolkits/lvm/index.html
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Resizing will NOT leave you with a bootable system. This is expected, because volume information was lost, so you’ll need to run LVM from e.g. the installation CD or recovery floppies http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL1100H/vnewsf5.htm
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Computer doing computery things
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I expected this and it has an easy solution: duplicating the hard disk file :blobcatrainbow:
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oops ran out of space on my VM
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(why don’t I have that preview yet? because the installer is buggy and it wouldn’t let me get it… yet)
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Oh, you might have noticed. The file manager now looks more… Windowsy, doesn’t it? Yep, that’s because it’s all been replaced by Object Navigator!
It’s definitely a powerful file manager for the time, particularly because it has integrated file preview beyond just thumbnails :blobcateyes: https://www.stardock.com/products/od20/info_od20.html
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Ye, I think I’m leaving this as my final desktop :blobcatfluffowo:
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And in case it wasn’t obvious: you can move around the locations of the original items and the shadows will work just fine. Because it’s objecty and it uses an UID internally!
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OK there’s at least one kind of widget you can add: folder objects. Those symlinks now look a bit more useful :blobcateyes:
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OK, so back to Object Desktop. First things first, what pops up the most, the Control Center. It does kinda look like KDE 1 or NeXT’s dock. You can customize your section choices in the “Sections” tab (iknorite) of the object’s properties, either right clicking on the app file icon or the bar itself (because OS/2 makes that universal for all objects). You can also enable a titlebar on the Options tab and drag it around to snap it at a different border, including the top and bottom edges.
Also, I should look up Object Desktop’s docs, it MIGHT be possible to add custom widgets and I’m just not aware of it.
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I do have to say I have already found limitations tho: there’s no obvious way to e.g. create a toolbar shelf with the contents of a directory instead of “hardcoding” them one by one, neither WarpCenter nor Object Desktop’s Control Center allow you to customize what they contain (so no widgets), and color tweaking is awkward :blobcatderpy:
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I have to say: this is extremely dense, there’s a lot to go through and it’s pretty late, so I guess I should leave it for next morning :blobcatsleep2:
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Immediately you can see virtual desktops, system monitors and system theme tweaks. Indeed, Object Desktop can modify the OS theme itself! But let’s keep going, shall we :blobcateyes:
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And now I got Object Desktop and it looks like: this
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BTW: you can theme specific windows only, you’re welcome
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Once again, even if it feels underwhelming: out of the box, it is STILL more customizable than any Windows ever has :blobcatdab:
ThatOneCalculator :calcdumpy: :calckey:
@xerz@fedi.xerz.one mayhaps
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@thatonecalculator wait do I save Chromium for later :blobcatthinkingglare:
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