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    PDE Desktop for OS/2 Warp    
                                 
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     PDE (Polumuh Desktop Environment)
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    English "Readme" for PDE 0.20 (http://os2progg.by.ru/pde)

    Please, read this document before using "PDE desktop". You also should
read PDE help and on-line documentation to obtain an additional information
, not included here.

                                           Thanks, stVova [30/05/2004]


    1. General info.

    PDE is the shell replainsment for OS/2 and eCS operating systems.
PDE can be used as primary shall or with WorkplaceShell. It designed
to not conflict with your WPS, including any of the WPS-enhancers, such
as XWorkPlace, Nice, CandyBarZ, eStyler/2 etc.
    I haven't problems with CandyBarZ, and  author of Nice - Sergey Posokhov
informed me, that PDE is good with Nice.
    PDE was named such because it is the Desktop Environment (second and third
words). The first word has no translation from Cyryllic but means OS/2
Operating System on Ukrainian and Russian programmers' jargon.
So let it be "Polumuh Desktop Environment (PDE)" for non-Cyryllic-speaking
people.

    2. Installing.

    When installed, PDE gives you another Desktop, P-Panel, file-manager
and some other programs. PDE is no depends of the OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI
files.
    The simplest way to install current version of PDE is to install it as
additional shell (running with WPS):
  + unpack it to C:\PDE (*)
  + move library "PDEDLGS.DLL" from PDE folder to your \OS2\DLL\ folder
  + thats all.

    Then install as primary shell, you also need:
  + in your CONFIG.SYS change line of
    SET RUNWORKPLACE= to the file PDM.EXE
    (you will find it in C:\PDE\), so your line will be
    SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\PDE\PDM.EXE
  + reboot

(*) You can place PDE in any folder you like, but than you need to add to
CONFIG.SYS line SET PDE_HOME=[your_folder]

    After rebooting (if primary shell) you will need to config PDE for
yourself. But you can to test PDE without any additional configuratuion.


Additional information for users of previous versions of PDE.
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If you used PDE 0.1 or 0.06 you can transfer some of you settings.
It's recommended to rename your old PDE folder and after installing PDE 0.2
you may copy files from your "HOME", "Drives", "Programs", "Bookmarks" folders.
Most of configuration files were changed in PDE 0.2, but for many settings you
now don't need to do manuall configuration - them have GUI dialogs 
(file associations, "quick run" and "bookmarks" lists, FileHalf themes
, most og P-Panel's configuration etc).
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    3. Configuration.

    All PDE setting is stored in directory [PDE_HOME]\PDEConf\ and are simple
text files with "cfg" extension were:

//this is comment line

and

Key=Value

so you can simple edit them.

Here is the description for .CFG files:
  general.cfg  - general for all PDE programs settings, language, for example.
  pdm.cfg      - desktop settings.
  filehalf.cfg - settings for FileHalf, file manager of PDE.
  deskhalf.cfg - launch panel (we name it P-panel) settings.

  desktop.progs and ppanel.progs - here specified items on Desktop and P-Panel.

  quickrun.cfg - programs for FileHalf's "Quickrun" menu.

  openwith.cfg - programs for FileHalf's "Open with" menu item.

  associations.cfg - I think, the major one. Here specified file types 
                     associations for FileHalf.

Salvador Parra Camacho wrote wps2pde.cmd, which allow to simple
convert your WPS-objects from WarpCenter into PDE [SHORTCUT]s  for
P-Panel menu.

    4. Known problems.

First of all, my English (and my Russian to). I know it not perfect, so sorry,
I'm neither Russian no Englishman, I'm Ukrainian.
The second one - users don't like first to read documentation and then ask
"why this don't work, or buggy?"
:-)
Sometimes PDE don't set right working directory for the programs and this is
realy problem for old applications (such as DoomII, Quake, :-( ). (fixed)
P-Panel can sometimes froze, when you swith to it from window list.
FileHalf can go out when see properties of files&folders on CD-ROM.

    5. Feedback.
    Feel free to mail me, I like to receive mail. (stVova@ukrpost.com.ua)
If you find bug, have suggestion, ideas etc. Especially, if you are the talent
programmer, designer and want to join. If translated PDE on your own language
or made cool background or icon-set. If you want your own programs be added
and so on.