Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Jul 2009 21:38 UTC
It's time for another "OSNews asks" item. This time, I want to focus on something that I've been wanting to talk about with you all before, but never found the time for. The question is simple: which feature(s) from other operating systems would you like to see in your own main operating system?
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2009-07-17
The minimum...
Flicker free scroll in all windows (wait on vertical refresh like in AmigaOS).
No curious stops/hangs in painting the desktop on my quad processor machine (QNX and other realtime OS works, windows not so much.)
Multiple input sources. If I can handle two mice at the same time why can't the computer. And there should really be native support for pointing and clicking through video capture. If I use two colored markers again it should handle as two input sources.
Standard for communicating with configurable hardware: Most of the time I would rather set monitor properties from the OS than using the little buttons inconveniently placed underneath the monitor edge. Windows already communicates DRM so why not something a bit more useful. The monitor should also report actual physical size and the OS should have 'actual size' support.
*Dito the zoom out, zoom in of the desktop to navigate the workspace.
The niceties...
Debugger virtual machine with reversible execution so you can debug program flow forwards and backwards.
Support for virtual machines associated with programs so you can easily run some programs in a very secure context.