Description

xWorkplace (XWP) is undoubtedly the universal WPS enhancer no OS/2 - eCS system should miss. XWP adds lot of useful features to many parts of your system, while being totally configurable, so that all features you don't like can be turned off.

XWorkplace is the successor to Ulrich Möller's popular XFolder WPS Enhancer utility.

Features

XWorkplace consists of a whole collection of WPS replacement classes, plus lots of other features, among which are:

• Freely configurable context menus.
• Extended sort functions: finally there are system-wide default sort options, plus more sort criteria (e.g. sort by extension).
• Display of folder content in context menus.
• Freely configurable folder status bars.
• Full path in folder window title bar.
• Freely configurable folder hotkeys (e.g. "F5" for "Refresh now", or "Ctrl+E" for "Sort by extension"): more than 30 items can be configured.
• Freely configurable object hotkeys: assign a hotkey to any WPS object and have it opened quickly this way.
• "Snap to grid" for all folders.
• Auto-scroll folder Tree views to make appearing items visible.
• Extended Shutdown / Restart WPS features: you can now abort shutdown, configure many things, skip hanging programs, and even automatically reboot to a certain partition, if you have BootManager installed.
• Lots of new WPS settings objects to ease system configuration, including CONFIG.SYS settings and device driver setup.
• New "WPS Class List" object for manipulating the WPS class list.
• Default WPS icons can be freely replaced.
• More system sounds for certain WPS events.
• "Treesize" utility to find out how much disk space is consumed by a folder and its subfolders.
• "Netscape DDE Interface" utility to have URLs being passed to the currently running Netscape instance instead of always starting a new one.
• A trash can with full WPS "delete" support.
• Lots of mouse and keyboard enhancements, such as sliding focus, sliding menus, screen corner objects, and global object hotkeys — all with full WPS integration.
• PageMage, a "virtual desktops" utility.
• The XCenter, a WarpCenter replacement.
• Xview : Formerly known as XWP's Splitview folder window offers a tree-and-details view better suited to managing files on your drives.

Editions

Changes to XWP's build system now permit the creation of two versions: Full and Lite. Lite is very similar to eWP but without the eCS branding and logos. Unlike eWP, it includes XWP's Startup Folders, probably the most popular XWP feature missing in eWP. Be aware that the lite version does not contain XWP Setup or Media.

You can also review the xWorkplace Archived News page.

Binaries

Version	Edition	Date	Packages
1.0.13	Full	2020-02-01	​DE, ​EN, ​IT, ​JA, ​NL
1.0.13	Lite	2020-02-01	​DE, ​EN, ​IT, ​JA, ​NL
XWorkplace Older Versions - Here you can find older releases of XWorkplace

As usual with all Netlabs projects there is also a dedicated ftp directory for release builds - ​ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xworkplace/. Currently there are only older versions as the last official builds from Rich didn't make it into there. Rich also compiles special versions for ArcaOS.

In June 2021 I (Andreas Buchinger) started to play with the XWP sources once again. I set up a new svn branch (​http://trac.netlabs.org/xworkplace/browser/branches/branch_AB) which is planned to be very similar to the official working tree (branch-1-0). But with a few exceptions - shutdown time is increased as it is definitely necessary on one of my systems. Maybe I'll implement an environment variable to set this time as some other users seem to have the same problem with the official build. And I prefer the standard shutdown dialog with the ability to customize the 'reboot to' partition names. The new dialog from Rich is undoubtedly advantageous for systems with a small number of bootable partitions, but it is unusable for my systems with 8 or more OS installations. Moreover when you add/remove another harddisk (which I've to do sometimes), the new shutdown dialog will get even more confusing. That's the reason why I started the branch_AB.

Feedback and Support

If you find bugs, please create a ticket at ​http://trac.netlabs.org/xworkplace/report. The old ticket system (xtracker) doesn't work since a while. If you have a problem with the ArcaOS build, Arca Noae mantis ticket system will the best place probably.

(20210611 - the support mailing lists do not work since a while. No clue if the ever come back to life. Discussing things at ​https://www.os2world.com/forum/ maybe an option)

The support mailing list is at ​xworkplace users mailing list. To subscribe to the user support mailing list, send mail to ​Subscribe to xworkplace users mailing list. The subject and body can be empty. You will receive a response to which you must reply to complete the process.

For discussing developer questions, use this list: ​xworkplace developers mailing list. To subscribe to the developers mailing list, send mail to ​Subscribe to xworkplace developers mailing list. The subject and body can be empty. You will receive a response to which you must reply to complete the process.

These lists are ​EzMLM mailing lists. If you need help subscribing, see ​Netlabs Mailing Lists.

Like all ​Netlabs Mailing Lists, these lists are mirrored to ​Gmane. The users list is mirrored to ​xwp general, while the developers list is mirrored to ​xwp devel. (N.B.: Gmane's web interface shut down in July of 2016, though the news and mailing lists continue to function. See ​here for more information.)

Building xworkplace

• Check out complete source tree ​here.

Note: the current XWP source code is in the 'branches/branch-1-0' directory (as linked above). The contents of '/trunk' is obsolete and is not maintained.

• Check out source tree for helpers ​here.
• You may download some widget sources ​here.
• The UsbWidget is now part of the widget sources ​here, but building it is not integrated yet.
• Follow the included documentation in progref.inf.

Links

• ​xWorkplace XTracker Page for submiting Bugs.
• ​xwp user mailing list via your favorite news reader.
• ​xwp developer mailing list via your favorite news reader.
• ​Information about the Netlabs Support Mailing Lists. This web page describes all methods that can be used to access the Netlabs Support Mailing Lists. The name for the general mailing list of the xworkplace project is xworkplace-user, and the name for the developer list is xworkplace-dev.
• ​XCenter Plugin List homepage. This site lists available XCenter widgets from various sources.
• ​xWorkplace Discontinued Homepage (Internet Archive capture from 2010).
• ​xWorkplace Discontinued Netlabs Homepage.

License

This is an open source project under the GNU GPL V2 license.

Credits

• Ulrich Möller
• Paul Ratcliffe
• Martin Lafaix
• Rich Walsh
• Steve Levine
• David Azarewicz