Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Message-ID: <1991Jun20.005749.9562@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 20 Jun 91 00:57:49 GMT References: <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun18.165401.26383@ifi.unizh.ch> <1991Jun19.154113.28723@news.iastate.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 27 In article <1991Jun19.154113.28723@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > The problem is that on the Amiga, icons can be (and very often are) > quite large. Yes, that's a general problem. I like the new IconEdit... what I typically do on installing a new program is open the program, use SNAP to cut an appropriate image form it, save it to IFF, and then IconEdit it to something useful. > 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. Sure, since it's usually the *tools* that have the huge icons, it'll be easy to tell what little *project* you drop into it... No problem. > Anyway, the problem of large icons is serious enough to make > drag-and-drop useless in many, many circumstances, and this added > 'Show By ...' feature is one way to solve this. Sigh... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"