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On 2015-01-23, Dave Liquorice wrote:

I keep wandering off to look but I've yet to be won over by any linux
desktop compared to Presentation Manager on OS/2. They have the
annoying restrictions that the Windows desktop has. Dialogue open?
You can only move or switch to a limited set of windows.

Nope. That's one of the reasons I loathe Windows. Click "File - Open",
Windows opens a file chooser, damn, I've forgotten where the file is, now
I have to close the ****ing chooser to go and remind myself where the file
is. Any system that seizes the inpput focus is broken.


Maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but I don't seem what you mean.


Though I do agree that the 'file is already open' behaviour of Windows
in annoying at times

I'm not sure we're talking about exactly the same problem but ISTM that
Windows is negligent in not telling me which program(s) a file is locked
by, or a removable drive is allegedly "in use" by. There seems to be
strong tradition in Microsoft's error messages of omitting the
information that the user actually wants to know. (I think the tradition
started with "Bad command or file name".)

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Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England