The Workplace Shell (WPS) is an object-oriented desktop shell (also called desktop environment) produced by IBM's Boca Raton development lab for OS/2...
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OS/2 (section Workplace OS (1995))
Windows GDI. On top of this lies the Workplace Shell (WPS) introduced in OS/2 2.0. WPS is an object-oriented shell allowing the user to perform traditional...
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Workplace OS was an IBM project which unsuccessfully attempted to replace multiple operating systems with compatibility "personalities" running on top...
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document viewer XWorkplace, a set of open source enhancements to the Workplace Shell 4OS2 OpenJDK 6 Qt 4 and 5 Samba 4 Heimdal Kerberos VirtualBox REXX...
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Manager. IBM contributed its Common User Access model from OS/2's Workplace Shell. Sun contributed its ToolTalk application interaction framework and...
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Scripting language (redirect from Shell language)
application. When the GUI provides the appropriate interfaces, as in the IBM Workplace Shell, a generic scripting language, e.g., Object REXX, can be used to write...
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session manager process in OS/2 versions 2.0 and later is the parent Workplace Shell process, which displays the "system is rebooting" window and triggers...
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of wide-ranging functional enhancements to the desktop environment (Workplace Shell), based on the open source XWorkplace project from NetLabs.org. These...
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Symbolic link (section Shell objects)
confused with the shell command alias. In the OS/2 operating system, symbolic links somewhat resemble shadows in the graphical Workplace Shell. However, shadows...
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and was withdrawn in 1992. IBM originally intended to deliver the Workplace Shell as part of the OfficeVision/2 LAN product, but in 1991 announced plans...
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ergonomic concerns of keeping the button pressed while dragging. The Workplace Shell of OS/2 uses dragging and dropping extensively with the secondary mouse...
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Object Model (SOM), which is known as the object framework for OS/2's Workplace Shell (WPS). Although IBM discontinued the development of SOM in 1997, it...
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In the graphical Workplace Shell (WPS) of the OS/2 operating system, a shadow is an object that represents another object. A shadow is a stand-in for...
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calculates the position of a device through nearby Wi-Fi access points Workplace Shell, a user interface of the IBM OS/2 operating system World Programming...
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mode MATE's Caja (though the default mode is navigational) OS/2's Workplace Shell RISC OS Filer ROX-Filer file manager (ROX Desktop) Dysfunctional spatial...
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on this filesystem. Parts of OS/2 version 2.0 and later such as the Workplace Shell uses several standardized extended attributes (also called EAs) for...
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Magellan. OS/2 (and derivatives such as eComStation and ArcaOS) use the Workplace Shell. Earlier versions of OS/2 used the Presentation Manager. The BumpTop...
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as ArcaOS, it was used as a base for the object-oriented interface Workplace Shell. There is a significant integration of the GUI layer with the rest...
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complete redesign of the shell of OS/2, substituting the Presentation Manager of OS/2 1.x for the object-oriented Workplace Shell that made its debut in...
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the REXX language license. This allowed OS/2 to have the WPS (Workplace Shell) GUI shell for OS/2 2.0, a 32-bit operating system. Commodore-Amiga produced...
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file manager GNOME's Nautilus from version 2.6 till 2.28 the OS/2 Workplace Shell the RISC OS Filer the ROX Desktop's ROX-Filer Windows Explorer in Windows...
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later versions of OS/2, which used it for most code, including the Workplace Shell. Object REXX for OS/2 is able to deal with SOM classes and objects...
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was a major improvement: it featured a new, object-oriented GUI, the Workplace Shell (WPS), that included a desktop and was considered by many to be OS/2's...
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minus 1 on FAT32 volumes.) Extended attributes are accessible via the Workplace Shell desktop, through REXX scripts, and many system GUI and command-line...
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Windows 3.1 UI. After the split with Microsoft, IBM developed the Workplace Shell (WPS) for version 2.0 (released in 1992), a quite radical, object-oriented...
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required. Aliases are similar in operation to shadows in the graphical Workplace Shell of the OS/2 operating system. In System 7 through Mac OS 9, aliases...
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Archived from the original on 2016-11-05. Retrieved 2014-09-06. "OS/2 Workplace Shell Configuration Techniques" (PDF). IBM redbook. 1994. pp. 68–80. Archived...
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IconPackager and ObjectBar. Object Desktop — initially entitled The Workplace Toolset/2 — was developed over three years by Brad Wardell and Kurt Westerfeld...
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In aviation, the SHELL model (also known as the SHEL model) is a conceptual model of human factors that helps to clarify the location and cause of human...
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SB, Bjorkelo B, Burke RJ "Workplace Bullying as the Dark Side of Whistleblowing" in Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace: Developments in Theory, Research...
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