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ArcaOS 5.0.8 Part2

This is a quick continuation of my Part 1. One of my initial issues was this:

The scroll bars are always present for the Computer window every time it is opened and no matter the window size. As soon as I pull the window larger, they disappear.

So, the Drives on my desktop was a shadow and looking in the Computer widow I could not find the real Drives folder. It was out of the Computer window which still did not make sense because the scroll bars would go away. Long story short, I deleted the desktop shadow Drives and moved the real Drives to the Desktop. Problem solved. How? Not sure.

Some of my issues using Dynamic Icons:

  • The window upper corner icon does not always open with the Dynamic Icon thumbnail. Closing and opening the window almost always clears this up.
  • The trashcan defaults to a default icon occasionally when there is a trashcan action.
  • BIGICONS directory not changeable, see below.

The installation directory for the icons is “\sys\icons\BIGICONS”. In the config.sys there is this statement:

SET BIGICONS=C:\sys\icons\BIGICONS

However, I have tried setting BIGICONS, in the above statement, to another directory without luck. So, the way I install is to rename the BIGICONS directory to BIGICONS_ and copy the BIGICONS directory from this repo into \sys\icons.

My wish list items:

  • Globally turn the Menu Bar for Icon View off (Maybe there is and I do not know).
  • XCenter use the png icons rather than the defailts.

Anyway, my icon theme is here right now on my home Gitlab (Mybigcons). Here are some screen shot samples:

Time for a snapshot and to try and optimize and find the delay in the config.sys during startup/boot.

OS/2: Blue Lion – Arca Noae

According to the Arca Noae site:

Blue Lion is Go!

Arca Noae has become an IBM business partner and has an agreement in place that enables us to produce our own OS/2 distribution. We have given this project the code name “Blue Lion” (which probably won’t be the final release name!).

Other sites:

TechRepublic: OS/2: Blue Lion to be the next distro of the 28-year-old OS

Arca Noae is developing a new full distribution of OS/2 that should ease the pain of upgrading or deploying the OS on modern hardware.

OSNews: Blue Lion: new OS/2 distribution due 2016

The Register: Is the world ready for a bare-metal OS/2 rebirth?