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From: ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey)
Subject: Re: Will Apple PLEASE Respond to THIS!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.150801.23626@Think.COM>
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In article <13903@goofy.Apple.COM> alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg) writes:
>In article <1991Jun5.195502.15181@sequent.com>, iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans) writes:
>> 
>> I know this subject has been covered MANY times, but I have yet to see
>> a REAL response:
>> 
>> Why are the 1 bit icons, icn#, used under system 7.0 when there are 4
>> and 8 bit icons available (icl4, icl8, ics4, ics8)??? [...]
>
>Which ones aren't used? About the only one you won't see by default is the
>floppy disk icon. (I'm not actually sure why this exists, except maybe for
>the Disk Init dialogs.) Every icon (all all kinds) that I looked at in the
>system file is used for me. 

That's the one we're griping about! I don't recall offhand if any other
icl8's have this problem, but that one sure does.  And it's not like it's
some random picture, either -- its ID number is the same as the 1-bit ICN#
that *does* appear (in all pixel depths).

>> Would someone at Apple who KNOWS THE ANSWER(S) please respond to this
>> question??  I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to know.
>> 
>
>Yeah, well, I think I know the answer, but I'll wait until you tell us
>which icons don't show up.

Just the floppy disk.  If you *do* know the answer, could you help us mere
mortals...?  Pleeze? :-)

>
>> Also, if there is a clean workaround that can be implemented I would be
>> happy to post my findings.
>>
>
>You shouldn't need a workaround, all standard icons in the system file
>should show up.

That's the point! It *should* show up -- after all, it's got the same ID.
There has been no satisfactory solution to the problem (NB -- pasting icons
onto every floppy is NOT is satisfactory solution!) as yet...

(lest I get flamed -- the point is not that I [and others] want a nifty
8-bit floppy disk icon.  It's that a part of the system that SHOULD work
DOESN'T, and nobody at Apple is even ACKNOWLEDGING that fact!!!  A simple
"Yes, we know it's there; it'll be fixed in 7.0.1" would do VERY nicely!)

--Erik

(ps - has anyone actually called the 1-800 or 1-900 numbers with this
question?)

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