On Fri, 22 Dec 1995 16:47:15 CST Richard Gambrell said:
>> Also, Open Deskmanager 2.0 provides several different working PC clients
>> on its installation tape, so as long as you use those clients, you'll be
>> able to access OD2 from your PC.
>>
>We like the HP GUI for Windows and the Mac clients the best, but why
>doesn't the HP GUI support drag and drop between itself and the Windows
>enviornment? It seems to want the old fashioned approach of setting up
>a .ini file just to define a few applications, when the Windows registry
>already knows all about them?
 
Well, do you *really* want to use the registry (in 95) or file association
lists (in 3.1) by default?  Nasty business if someone e-mails you a .exe,
.bat, .com, etc.  I'd settle for a convenient means of associating file
types with applications (rather than manually editing the .ini).
 
>Performance over Ethernet and from our dial-up client (Shiva) is just
>fine, although it would be nice if it didn't download the whole list of
>intray items and some of us have more than 400 items in a folder (or in
>the intray [how *do* you get users to move messages out of the intray or
>to just delete them? I am glad the GUI has a toolbar icon to delete and
>move to the next message!])
 
I see your point, but actually I wish that it *did* download the actual
mail (like the MS/Mail client does) to get it off of the host.  Then you
don't have to worry about users with 400 items in their intray :-)
 
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>