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Subject: Re: Sys 7.0, icons, desktop, rebuild
Message-ID: <1991May17.003116.4858@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 00:31:16 EDT
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In article <34568@mimsy.umd.edu>,
folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes: 
> I did something bad and had to rebuild my desktop. It warns you that you will
> use Get Info comments. BUT, it preserves any icons you have pasted onto, say,
> folders! That's nice.
> 
> 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?

Maybe someone could rig up a little application that would do this: let you
select any file, take its _small_ icon, put the icon inside a large icon of a
folder, and either put the new icon into the Clipboard or let you select a
folder to paste it to.

Any takers?

Ed Swierk