Andy Willis schrieb:

> 
> I started making use of the Warpcenter when it first came out in Warp 4, 
> which as you recall came out before Win95 which is when Windy got one 
> (much more limited than the one on OS/2 at the time... it wasn't until 
> W2K that it even started to get as powerful and still isn't in some 
> ways).  

I'd started to use the WARPCenter as it was coming out and tried it on 
each new WARP version ond on most of the fixpack installed - but gave 
up at WARP4 FP forever to use that piece of crap forever. Each try 
before endet up with an completey instable system, so I removed it 
from config.sys forever.

With eCS 1.0 was eCenter (not cComCeter!) welcome because I learned 
before to use XCenter. Every time I have to install eCS the first 
after install comples I configure eCenter to my personal use. That means
- remove any button from it as I can't find a usage for them
   and need the room they occupay for the optional widgeds.
- install the optional widgets as
   - free memory
     It is nice to have that visible constantly
   - free diskspace (compact)
     and select all drives I feel the need to control
   - IP-Monitor
     tells me anything I need to know about my DSL connection
     and network performance

Then I fill the try with the most imortant application I have no icon 
on the desktop and leave the standard objects there even as I have 
rarely a need for.

Thereafter I set the filters for the tasklist:
- world time clock
- ecenter
- launchpad
as there is really no need to spend room for them.

Sometimes I use the feature "kill process" of the tasklist because it 
kills hunging processes better as any of the commandline tools I own 
for that. I let the tasklist alive only for that.

True, eCenter looks at first look like the windows taskbar - but it is 
more usefull that the wincrap ever will because I can configure and 
use it as I like not as Mr. Gate thinks I have to do.

It makes for easy access as I usually have multiple program
> windows open all over the screen (can't hardly stand having apps full 
> screen).  I don't use it quite the same as I used to as I started using 
> hotkeys from xworkplace many years ago.  I use two of them (one top and 
> one bottom) where the bottom one just has lswitcher setup so that I can 
> change priorities and switch tasks quickly.

I use even the launchpad extensively. Because I learned to love it 
with WARP3 and WARPCenter in WARP4 was absolutely unuseable.

> I can understand someone not liking the centers as I never liked the 
> launchpad from earlier OS/2 versions (though I did use it for some 
> functions).

eCS is flexible enough to give anybody a system that does exactly what 
one will. You have no need for the tasklist in eCenter? Easy remove 
it. You have no need for the try? Easy remove it or any object seted 
as default. You have a need to have some apps in a try to have a quick 
start for? Drag its shadow into the try regardless in which folder it 
is. Wide the try when needed and/or create more of them.

At least you are the master of your desktop. Configure it for your 
needs regardless of what others tells you.

I configured WPS, eCenter, ePager and launchpad to fit my needs. So 
should anybody do. I will never get a friend of windows because it 
will never be able to let me do what I will, never been able to accept 
the configuration I need to get me done what I have to do.

Currently even linux is no real alternative because it tries to been 
like windows.

So eCS is for foreseeable time the only solution to get my work done 
on the most possible and most easy way.

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