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Written by movq on 2025-01-19 at 11:58

Neat OS/2 feature: The “settings” window of an icon usually shows some generic options. That’s what I’m used to these days. In OS/2, it can also show program-specific settings. The video shows me configuring two launchers for FTP-PM with different connection settings.

Digging deeper into the WPS (e.g., what do I have to do to create such a settings dialog for my own programs) is on my not-necessarily-small TODO list. I’ll get there … eventually.

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Written by Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh) on 2025-01-19 at 12:11

@movq Funnily, this is what everyone complained about with iOS, where apps could store settings in the system's Settings app. Turns out it split every app's settings into two places, toggles and defaults in the app itself (like, adjust the focus in the camera app right now vs. set up the default flash settings in Settings app).

But I love that this stores different settings for a symlink to the app (or is that a copy?), makes things very flexible and uses the file manager as a bookmark manager.

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Written by movq on 2025-01-19 at 12:44

@uliwitness Hmm, I’ve never really used iOS, so I can’t compare it to that. In my mind, the OS/2 thing was like specifying command line arguments, ftp --hostname foobar --user foo …, just with a fancy and standardized GUI for it. 🤔

Then again, I don’t really know yet how those settings are passed to the program. There’s a chance that the whole thing is complicated and inelegant after all, no idea. 😅

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Written by Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh) on 2025-01-19 at 12:50

@movq Yeah, Windows has the option to have symlinks pass command line arguments, would make sense that OS/2 would have that feature too, and Apple's A/UX already had Commando for building GUIs for command line arguments, so this could be a lot simpler than the custom dynamically-loaded GUI modules Apple used on iOS for their per-app settings.

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Written by CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH on 2025-01-19 at 12:53

@movq I can hear the sound effects in this GIF (but I imagine you turned them off)

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