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From: jasons@pendragon.TEK.COM (E. Jason Scheck)
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Subject: Re: Will Apple PLEASE Respond to THIS!!
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Date: 10 Jun 91 17:21:27 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.195502.15181@sequent.com> <15357@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <1991Jun6.215232.17595@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <13966@goofy.Apple.COM>
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In article <13966@goofy.Apple.COM>, lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
|> In article <1991Jun6.215232.17595@ulowell.ulowell.edu> jkeegan@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Keegan) writes:
|> >
|> >Despite Steve's help, I'd still like to hear someone at Apple at least say
|> >that they've read messages about this issue but have yet to reproduce it,
|> >or that they know about the bug and will fix it someday. Another thing I've
|> 
|> I've read this discussion, and it's easy to reproduce.  I'm not in a
|> position to do anything about it, however.
|> 
|> My theory is that the Finder uses 1-bit icons when it can't get the
|> necessary colors to display the multi-bit icons, or perhaps when the color
|> table is non-standard.  The alternative would be to display lousy-looking
|> color icons in some cases.  So this probably isn't a bug.
|> 
|> This doesn't explain why the multi-bit floppy icon isn't used.  That may be
|> a bug.  I don't work on the Finder, so I don't know for sure.  
|> 
|> -- 
|> Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
|> 
|> lsr@apple.com
|> (or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)

I have gotten used to the floppy icon from the 128K days (when the shutter
was filled in), and I've become accustomed to coloring it in anytime I got
a new system release.  Even when I color in the b&w icon in the system file
under system 7, I get the old icon for floppies.  It seems that the finder
is just using the icon that the Sony driver returns to it.  Is there any
interface for a _driver_ to return a color icon (so that something like
"Facade" could be used to substitute a better icon)?

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