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From: rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.224736.15828@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 22:47:36 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.154113.28723@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   Drag-and-drop does sound interesting, but it ocurred to me that, in 
>order for drag-and-drop to work well on an Amiga, one additional feature
>will have to be added.
>
>   The problem is that on the Amiga, icons can be (and very often are)
>quite large.  Icons larger than about 30x30 (a typical, usable size on
>a 640x200 Workbench) are common, and it is not unusual to find icons as
>large as half of the screen.  Icons this large can play havoc with a
>feature like drag-and-drop, because when the user drags an unusually large 
>icon over a cluster of applications, the user will not be able to tell
>which application will be launched when the icon is released.

  I partialy agree. He will be able to tell because the mouse pointer
is still visible, all he has to do is align the pointer with the destination
icon, however, I do see the "geometry" problem. It wouldn't be a problem
if developers would use some common sense, don't make icons as big as
the whole screen! It might look pretty, but don't do it. Optionally
a user can drag an offending icon into an IconEdit window and chop it up.
(Does the Mac have the equivelent of Amiga AppWindows ? I know it has
AppIcons (drag and drop onto other icons), but what about dragging an Icon
from Finder directly into Word's window and having Word autoload it)

  Generally Marc, a good suggestion, one that should be mailed to
cbmvax.commodore.com. It's fairly easy to add. In the future, Commodore
should warn developers not to use mega big icons.

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