Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!yee From: yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: New control panel icons in 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 18:08:37 GMT References: <671688005.1@mmug.mn.org> <1991Apr17.045421.29754@verity.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 35 In-reply-to: anders@verity.com's message of 17 Apr 91 04:54:21 GMT In article <1991Apr17.045421.29754@verity.com> anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren) writes: |> Rebuild your desktop file - almost every icon in the Control Panels |> folder now has a square border with a little slider picture on the |> side or on the bottom, with a slightly smaller version of the old icon |> inside. I must agree that these icons were a little harder to deal |> with at first, but now I don't seem to be having as much trouble. |> Perhaps this is due to the fact that I've learned where the different |> control panels are and I just select from memory rather than actually |> looking. Sound like a very bad user interface if the control panel icons look worst than the current icons displayed in the 6.0 Control Panel. User interfaces should get better, not worst. I don't have 7.0, but it seems that Apple had their heart in the wrong place in getting rid of the Control Panel. I think the Control Panel is a good idea. The original Control Panel concept seem like a more natural way to deal with the setting of system parameters than the 7.0 paradigm of clicking on CDev files on the desktop. The only problem with the 6.0 Control Panel was waiting for the Control Panel to read all the files in the System folder, and the lack of memory of the last open CDev. Both of these problems are fixed in Control Panel replacement DA called Waitless. Is it too late to ask Apple to put the Control Panel back in? I guess this is another area where a 3rd party company can develop a old style Control Panel DA or application. =Mike -- = Michael K. Yee -- yee@osf.org or uunet!osf.org!yee -- = OSF/Motif Development = Open Software Foundation - 11 Cambridge Center - Cambridge, MA 02142