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From: 2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Sys 7.0, icons, desktop, rebuild
Message-ID: <1991May16.192210.30825@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 19:22:10 CDT
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In article <34568@mimsy.umd.edu>, folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
> Question: how are people using this ability? I took my application's icons and
> pasted them onto the folders containing them. But then it was too easy to
> mistake the real application for its folder (double-clicking to open a folder
> and getting a launch instead). So, I appended the option-f to folder names.
> 
> What are other people doing? Anything like this? Will there be any consensus?
> 
> Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)


The same thing you did occured to me as well.  As an alternative I pooped into
ResEdit, grabbed the folder icon from the System (or Finder?  I forget) and
made a number of copies of it.  I then tediously modified these (often with
appropriate app icons).  As an example, I took the MacWrite document icon and
placed it over a folder.  Result: a folder with a small typed sheet of paper on
it.  It's still clearly a folder, but obvious that it contains word processing
stuff or such.  (Consider the Apple Menu folder in your System folder that has
the apple on it).

I spent several days and have amassed perhaps 40 or 50 folder icons.  When I
get the time I'm going to put them all in a Scrapbook and upload it somewhere.

john calhoun