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From: tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Pasting icon/picts onto icons in get-info boxes
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Date: 29 May 91 21:15:17 GMT
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In article <0B02FFF0.gq3aht@avalon.caladan.wa.com> stui@avalon.caladan.wa.com (Stuart Burden) writes:
>Pity the whole system of replacing icons on the desktop isn't applicable
>to all desktop icons.. you can't replace the trash icon.. or is there a
>neat trick to do this that I've missed?.. thought System 7 was supposed
>to treat the trash just like a folder.. or maybe not :-)

I seem to remember reading a net-article claiming that Apple had made the
trash icon un-modifiable (by official means) for legal reasons, i.e., the
appearance of the position of Trash was a distinctive Macintosh feature
which they didn't want to compromise.

Then again, maybe that's just a rumor.



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